An IDE for Android Mobile Phones with Extended Functionalities Using Best Developing Methodologies
Sakila Banu Ali, Saba V Kumar · International journal of Computer Networks & Communications · 2013
Google's Android platform is a widely anticipated open source operating system for mobile phones.The mobile phone landscape changed with the introduction of smart phones running Android, a platform marketed by Google.Android phones are the first credible threat to the iPhone market.Google not only target the consumers of iPhone, it also aimed to win the hearts and minds of mobile application developers.As a Result, application developers are developing new software's everyday for Android Smart Phones and are competing with the previous in Market.But so far there is no Specific IDE developed to create mobile application easily by just Drag and Drop method to make even the non-programmers to develop application for the smart phones. This paper presents an IDE with Extended Functionalities for Developing Mobile Applications for Android Mobile Phones using the Best developing Methodologies. The New IDE comes with the Extended Functionalities like Executing the created Application, Previewing the Application Created, Roll Back and Cancel Functions with the newly added Icons like Execute, Preview, Roll Back and Cancel Respectively. Another important feature of this paper is that the IDE is developed using the Best Developing Methodologies by presenting the possible methods for developing the IDE using JAVA SWING GUI Builder in Android ADT plug-in. The developed IDE is tested using the Android Runtime Emulator in Eclipse Framework.