Android App Development Applied to Remote Tasks Simplification

Abstract

Mobile devices, especially tablets and smartphones, have achieved enormous popularity over the last ten years due to their ease of use and multifunctionality, thus gaining meritoriously a prominent space in our daily lives. On the opposite side, despite improvements in usability and intuitiveness, to use desktop devices users must learn how to interact with the operating system, how to achieve tasks, and fulfill system's specifications. This paper aims to present a methodology that responds to identified needs of users allowing them to execute desktop tasks from mobile applications. Based on real-time database, picture-driven computing, task automation and mobile interactive systems the approach aims to reduce the challenges that users face while trying to perform a task, as well as improving the efficiency of task performance. The approach combines the features and capabilities of both PyAutoGUI and Firebase tools to simplify the process used by such users to perform tasks. The use of mobile devices enhances the usability of the new interactive system. This paper describes the methodology and the research is illustrated by means of a daily task application example.