Mobile Platforms and Ecosystems

Mobile Platforms and Knowledge Ecosystems: a Topological Analysis

This study presents a topological analysis of knowledge ecosystems associated with mobile platforms. Using computational analysis and visualization, we describe the activity and topic patterns of 22 million developers across 100 million threads in StackOverflow, a leading Q&A site for developers, with a focus on three leading mobile platforms: Android, iOS, and WindowsPhone. We find that (1) pa...

Mobile Platforms and Multi-Mobile Platform Development

Mobile devices and mobile applications have a significant effect on the present and on the future of the software industry. The diversity of mobile platforms necessitates the development of the same mobile application for all major mobile platforms, which requires considerable development effort. Mobile application developers are multiplatform developers, but they prioritize the platforms, ther...

Small Mobile Agent Platforms

Trusted Mobile Platforms

This article addresses two main topics. Firstly, we review the operation of trusted computing technology, which now appears likely to be implemented in future mobile devices (including mobile phones, PDAs, etc.). Secondly, we consider the possible applications of this technology in mobile devices, and how these applications can be supported using trusted computing technology. We focus in partic...

Mobile Platforms And Apps Cross-Platforms Development Tools

Apps are the new model of application software that originally developed for the software distribution to mobile devices, is emerging also in the other categories of devices. User finds the apps in a custom website called the store, whereas apps in the form of an auto-installing software package can be downloaded freely or after paying a fee, and easily installed and configured. The mobile plat...