Generating User Interface for Mobile Phone Devices Using Template-Based Approach and Generic Software Framework
Ming-Jyh Tsai, Deng-Jyi Chen · 2007
It has been shown that the major effort spent on the design and implementation of the system software for mobile phone devices is the user interfaces (UI) (or man-ma-chine interface, MMI) [15, 16]. If UI can be developed in a short time, it can be a great help to reduce development time for application software system. Therefore, many researchers in software engineering area have been seeking better solutions to aid UI designers to crate UI. In this paper, we propose a template-based approach to generate UI for mobile phone devices. Specifically, a UI design templates generator is purposed for UI designers to easily and quickly create the UI templates for mobile phone. Furthermore, the developed UI templates can be fine tune with a visual UI authoring tool to generate the UI prototype of the target mobile phone system under consideration. Then, the programmer takes the generated UI prototype as a guider for the program generator to glue the software system architecture and associated functions together to produce the target application system code. Finally, In order to demonstrate the feasibility and applicability of the proposed UI design templates generator, a simulator is designed and implemented for