Towards Analyzing Mobile App Characteristics for Mobile Software Development

Abstract

A mobile application (i.e., mobile app) is a small software program, which is mainly developed for mobile phones. Mobile apps have some peculiar characteristics, which are concerned with particular aspects in the form of requirements, pertaining to hardware, software and network connectivity. Designing an appropriate mobile app according to users' perspective depends on the mobile app characteristics. In this paper, we present a review of various available mobile app characteristics concerning to present mobile apps. It is observed that the user experience is one of the most exciting and evolving feature that attracts the majority of mobile app users. In order to deal with user experience, we have further explored and found some essential factors that affect it. Furthermore, mobile app paradigms play an important role for mobile app development. Mobile app characteristics help to select a suitable paradigm for mobile apps development. We have analyzed that hybrid mobile app paradigm fits in most of the mobile app development situations.