An Automatic Generation of Android Application for WooCommerce

Abstract

Smartphone technology affects every aspect of human life nowadays. Especially there is an increasing demand for online shopping through smartphones instead of websites. Therefore, to preserve the customers in the business, it is essential to keep up with the latest trends and convert the business websites to the equivalent mobile applications. Transforming a website to a mobile application efficiently and rapidly is of high demand from sellers with no programming knowledge. However, it is not a trivial task with the existence of complex websites for a variety of domains. WooCommerce with many E-Commerce functionalities and special customization features is one of the commonly-used E-Commerce platforms in the community. It is built on top of WordPress and operates over a large number of online stores. This research provides a unified framework for the transformation of WooCommerce websites to Android as the most widely-used mobile operating system. The Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is applied for the development of the framework, which provides an efficient way to automatically generate an Android implementation by focusing the attention of software developers from the low level of implementation to the high level of design.