Synthesis of mobile applications using AgileUML

Abstract

In this paper we describe a method to apply the AgileUML toolset to synthesise mobile apps from UML models. This is a lightweight model-driven engineering (MDE) approach suitable for app developers who need to rapidly produce native apps for either or both Android or iOS platforms. In contrast to other MDE approaches for app development, the approach aims to minimise the extent of manual effort by using very concise high-level specifications which abstract from technical details as far as possible, while still providing explicit definitions of functional app behaviour.