Software Engineering Challenges in Multi Platform Mobile Application Development
Hammoudeh S. Alamri, Balsam A. Mustafa · Advanced Science Letters · 2014
Mobile application development for smart phones has been increasing in last years as mobile phones have become an essential part of our contemporary life. As with any new phenomena, mobile application development has its own set of challenges, which attracted interested researchers in this new field. Nowadays, mobile applications become more complex, moving beyond inexpensive entertaining applications to more business critical uses, thus, it becomes essential to apply software engineering process to assure the development of secure, high-quality mobile applications. This paper highlights important issues in mobile application development using native development kits and cross-platform frameworks; it also discusses challenges in the software engineering activities for mobile applications development.