원문정보
초록
영어
We describe and analyze the experiences from a cross-platform mobile middleware project. Our aim is to identify best practices and provide guidelines for solving similar problems in the context of cross-platform-targeted programming in mobile as well as other environments. The main deliverable of the observed project was a cross-platform implementation of a protocol for maintaining DHT-based peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, with an emphasis on mobile operation. The target platforms of the software were Symbian OS, mobile Maemo Linux, and desktop/server Linux distributions. Considering the large number
of incompatible mobile platforms in the market, the fluency of cross-platform mobile software development is of particular importance. The observations in our work include the importance of maintaining the relevant conventions of the various platforms in the code and understanding the asymmetric difficulty in porting code between different platforms. We also determine the amount of cross-platform support related code in an example software module.
목차
1. Introduction
2. Language-internal constructs
2.1. Appearance and readability of the source code
2.2. Special rules in basic utility code or in the compilation process
3. Accessing system resources
4. Considerations for project management
4.1. Code-base management
4.2. Managing the complexity of cross-platform adaptation
4.3. Testing
5. Development overhead analysis
6. Conclusion
7. References