Management, Sharing and Reuse of Service-Based Mobile Applications

Abstract

The Micro App Generator (MAG) environment automatically creates mobile applications directly on the smartphone, following a service composition approach. A Micro App is constituted by a sequence of steps, where each step requires the execution of a single service. A Micro App is designed by visually composing its application model. In this paper we describe how the Micro Apps are managed by the Micro App Store, a digital distribution platform for Micro Apps, aiming at empowering the end-users by enabling them not only to create new applications, but also to share them with other users. Thus, each user can download the graphical application models designed by others and reuse them to create new customized applications, without the requirement of programming skills. We also detail how REST-style Web services can be encapsulated to compose Micro Apps.