TY - GEN
T1 - A cross-platform runtime environment for mobile widget-based application
AU - Kao, Yung Wei
AU - Lin, Chia Feng
AU - Yang, Kuei An
AU - Yuan, Shyan-Ming
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In recent years, the market of mobile device keeps growing dramatically. Apple iPhone and Google Android are the two representatives of this kind of devices. However, the mobile applications of these platforms can only be executed on some specific platforms; these applications are not portable to other platforms. Another kind of application is Web-based widget, such as Yahoo! Mobile Widget. This kind of application can be executed on different mobile platforms if there are local runtime environments installed on them. However, Yahoo has to provide a different runtime environment for each different mobile platform; if there is any platform which is not supported by Yahoo, Yahoo! Mobile Widget cannot be executed. Most of the Web applications can be executed on mobile devices because more and more Web-related standards are supported by mobile Web browsers. However, the drawback of Web application is that it cannot be executed without Internet connection. In this paper, we propose a Web-based widget execution runtime environment and adopt the Google Gears technology for offline execution. In this way, mobile users can enjoy Web applications via their mobile Web browsers even if their phones are under offline mode.
AB - In recent years, the market of mobile device keeps growing dramatically. Apple iPhone and Google Android are the two representatives of this kind of devices. However, the mobile applications of these platforms can only be executed on some specific platforms; these applications are not portable to other platforms. Another kind of application is Web-based widget, such as Yahoo! Mobile Widget. This kind of application can be executed on different mobile platforms if there are local runtime environments installed on them. However, Yahoo has to provide a different runtime environment for each different mobile platform; if there is any platform which is not supported by Yahoo, Yahoo! Mobile Widget cannot be executed. Most of the Web applications can be executed on mobile devices because more and more Web-related standards are supported by mobile Web browsers. However, the drawback of Web application is that it cannot be executed without Internet connection. In this paper, we propose a Web-based widget execution runtime environment and adopt the Google Gears technology for offline execution. In this way, mobile users can enjoy Web applications via their mobile Web browsers even if their phones are under offline mode.
KW - Mobile device
KW - Offline execution
KW - Widget
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=83455244502&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CyberC.2011.20
DO - 10.1109/CyberC.2011.20
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:83455244502
SN - 9780769545578
T3 - Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2011
SP - 68
EP - 71
BT - Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2011
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2011
Y2 - 10 October 2011 through 12 October 2011
ER -