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International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications

MOBILWARE 2012: Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications pp 164–177Cite as

A Common Platform API for Android

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Abstract

Cross-platform frameworks for mobile devices promise to facilitate the porting effort of applications between different smartphones. Our approach is to cross-compile Android applications to other platforms such as iOS or Windows Phone 7. Doing so requires to refactor the Android source code base in a platform-dependent and platform-independent part separated by a Common Platform API. This paper discusses the cross-compiling of Java-based Android applications and the design and implementation of the Common Platform API.

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  1. Computer Science Department, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94132, USA

    Arno Puder

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  1. Computer Science Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA

    Cristian Borcea

  2. Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Bellavista

  3. Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy

    Carlo Giannelli

  4. Faculty IV, TU Berlin, Franklinstra. 28/29, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Thomas Magedanz

  5. FOKUS - Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Kaiser-Augusta Allee 31, 0589, Berlin, Germany

    Florian Schreiner

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Puder, A. (2013). A Common Platform API for Android. In: Borcea, C., Bellavista, P., Giannelli, C., Magedanz, T., Schreiner, F. (eds) Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications. MOBILWARE 2012. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 65. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36660-4_12

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