Model Driven Development of Android Application Prototypes from Windows Navigation Diagrams

In recent years, the growth of smartphone market has led to the increasing development of mobile application. The rapid approach of mobile application development would respond to the market growth. This paper presents a model driven approach for creating preliminary GUI source code of Android application from windows navigation diagrams. The input diagram is converted to XML used as the metadata for model transformation. The final results of XML and Java files will be obtained for each UI layout where the XML file contains UI element information, and the Java file contains the actions. The proposed methodology would promote the reusability due to the use of UI layout template. The automation with model transformation would also ensure the integrity of interfaces generated from the design with windows navigation diagrams.