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Code Generation Approach for Mobile Application Using Acceleo
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/irecos.v11i2.8480
Abstract
Today, the development of mobile applications becomes more important and increasingly popular in our environment due to the intensive use of applications in mobile devices. The diversity of mobile operating systems (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc.) makes software engineers facing a real challenge to develop the same applications for these different platforms. Given this development complexity, we directed our work to platforms using Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach. This paper presents a methodology based on the MDA approach to develop mobile applications according to the principal ‘Develop Once, Use Everywhere’. Our approach exploits UML modeling and Acceleo to generate specific code in order to facilitate and accelerate the development of mobile applications. That is why we have developed two meta-models handling UML class diagrams and Android applications, then we have to set up transformation rules. The transformation rules defined in this paper can generate, from the class diagram, a classes Java files containing the necessary code of a mobile application.
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