Mobile app development occurs in a highly competitive, and fast-moving environment. Small teams or even individual developers build apps that can be very successful, sometimes literally over night. Many of these successful apps are driven by backend services that are either interfaces to established web applications or that exist just for the purpose to serve the mobile apps. We discuss our exp...

As we move into the mobile era, many functionalities in standard web services are being re-implemented in mobile apps and services, including many security-related functionalities. However, it has been observed that security features that are standardized in the PC and web space are often not implemented correctly by app developers resulting in serious security vulnerabilities. For instance, pr...

Mobile medical apps on cell phones and tablets have risen in popularity in recent years. They enable physicians to diagnose, manage, and monitor medical conditions outside the traditional healthcare environment. At the same time, such apps enable patients and consumers to self-monitor, and they allow for access to useful health-related information. On September 23, 2013, the Food and Drug Admin...

Mobile applications (apps) are increasingly popular and run on a wide range of different operating systems and devices. Fragmentation is one of the differences between mobile apps and webor desktop based applications and presents a challenge in delivering high quality apps. Automated testing can help to overcome it. This paper presents a case study on designing a continuous delivery pipeline fo...

With more and more people using variety of apps on their smart phones, security provided by these apps is becoming an important research consideration. The key objective of this work is to define and analyze some of the major security issues related to mobile apps. In this paper security concerns in a mobile app are highlighted. Further solutions for the same are suggested. Recent market trends...

Over the last few years we have witnessed the smartphone dominating the market, the rapid growth of mobile apps, a surge in mobile augmented reality and location-based apps, and burgeoning mobile communities. While mobile topics continue to provide rich research challenges, people and companies outside academia already use these apps regularly. This is due to the increased availability of affor...

The promises of mobile technology in healthcare have led to a great many mobile apps in public app stores that target patients with specific illnesses. Medical experts have criticized the status quo of mobile medical apps owing to the low level of professional medical involvement in mobile app design, leading to weak clinical performance and a poor integration of these tools into clinical pract...

Mobile learning has received an increasing attention by the TEL community since 2010. While much research is available on the effectiveness of individual apps and educational approaches and despite that many higher education institutions introduced special mobile learning apps, relatively little is known about the rationale of scaling up mobile learning in higher education institutions. It repo...

Mobile applications (apps) have permeated every walk of our life. This has motivated many companies to jump onto the «mobile wave» and develop specific apps for their products and services. With the growing number of apps, it has become ever more difficult for companies to arrest attention and to motivate users to continuously use the installed apps. A strategy that frequently is followed is to...

This paper reports a large-scale study that aims to understand how mobile application (app) vulnerabilities are associated with software libraries. We analyze both free and paid apps. Studying paid apps was quite meaningful because it helped us understand how differences in app development/maintenance affect the vulnerabilities associated with libraries. We analyzed 30k free and paid apps colle...