Challenges in Context-Aware Mobile Applications Building Approaches
Estevan Ricardo Gómez-Torres, Cecilia Challiol, Sílvia Gordillo · 2019
Context-aware mobile applications are immersed in our daily lives, allowing people to perform various tasks through the use of mobile devices. The complexity of designing these kinds of applications generate that different development tools have emerged to facilitate its creation. However, these development tools are often limited in the kind of applications that they derive which are generally based on the available APIs' sensors, such as GPS. From all the existing tools that could be allow to design and derive context-sensitive mobile applications, we are interested only in those that allow UML-based modeling. According to that, this paper analyzes different development tools to determine the variability of the kind of applications that can be generated with them. In order to carry out this analysis, we have taken into account the concepts proposed in a taxonomy of variability in building approaches for context-aware mobile applications. A discussion is presented in relation to the challenges involved to support variability in these tools.