Background: The increasing ownership of mobile phones and advances in hardware and software position these devices as cost-effective personalized tools for health promotion and management among women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Numerous mobile phone apps are available online; however, to our knowledge, no review has documented how these apps are developed and evaluated in relation...

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...

BACKGROUND A review of the literature has revealed that the rates of overweight and obesity have been increasing in Australia over the last two decades and that wellness mobile phone apps play a significant role in monitoring and managing individuals' weight. Although mobile phone app markets (iTunes and Google Play) list thousands of mobile phone health apps, it is not always clear whether tho...

HTML5-based mobile apps become more and more popular, mostly because they are much easier to be ported across different mobile platforms than native apps. HTML5-based apps are implemented using the standard web technologies, including HTML5, JavaScript and CSS; they depend on some middlewares, such as PhoneGap, to interact with the underlying OS. Knowing that JavaScript is subject to code injec...

BACKGROUND Government agencies in the United States are creating mobile health (mHealth) apps as part of recent policy changes initiated by the White House's Digital Government Strategy. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to understand the institutional and managerial barriers for the implementation of mHealth, as well as the resulting adoption pathways of mHealth. METHODS This articl...

In this paper, The mobile application field has been receiving astronomical attention from the past few years due to the growing number of mobile app downloads and withal due to the revenues being engendered .With the surge in the number of apps, the number of lamentable apps/failing apps has withal been growing.Interesting mobile app statistics are included in this paper which might avail the ...

As mobile devices have become an indispensable part of people’s lives, the growth of mobile app market is inevitably rapid. Accordingly, the mobile app users have increasing demands on the quality of the apps. Their tolerance towards bugs and poor usability of the apps is growing low. In addition, as the mobile devices and apps have enabled users to use them in various contexts, the mobility of...

Using a unique panel data set detailing individual-level mobile app consumption, this study develops a utility theory-based structural model for multiple discrete/continuous choices in app use. We identify the dynamics and interdependencies between mobile apps and jointly quantify consumers’ app choice and satiation simultaneously. The results suggest that mobile users’ baseline utility is the ...

The acceptability of mobile devices and mobile applications (apps) has resulted in exponential growth and consumption of such media. Although more than 50% of children under age eight have used a mobile app, there is still limited research on the utility of mobile devices and apps. With the growth in usage of apps especially by young children, there is tremendous potential for educational apps ...