Hybrid Mobile Apps Research Articles

Design and Validation of a Mobile Application for Construction and Demolition Waste Traceability

Many studies have developed technologies intended to automate the process toward improving sustainability and achieving a circular economy in the construction industry. Despite some research works that have been recently conducted to help construction agents in the management of construction and demolition waste (CDW), developing new CDW monitoring and traceability tools—through a collaborative and integrative approach—is still an urgent challenge. This paper developed a hybrid mobile app for the real-time traceability of construction waste generation and management, where agents involved in CDW management can work together and trace the generation and management of waste. For this, a research method was developed following three stages: (1) planning and design, including identification of the information to be incorporated in the app and the output data; (2) development of the app; and (3) app testing by several construction agents, stressing the benefits and limitations. The developed app allows not only estimating but also tracing the amount of CDW generated in a construction project, ensuring the correct management and control of the waste. In addition, it promotes collaborative work, as the agents involved in CDW management, i.e., construction companies, site managers, truck drivers, waste managers, and management plants, can work together and see in real-time the management of the waste.

Mobil Uygulamalarda Hibrit Sistemlerin Oluşturduğu Kullanım Kolaylıklarının İncelenmesi

Smartphone apps support people to adopt healthy lifestyles. Therefore, it is useful to understand the persuasive design strategies involved in hybrid mobile applications that facilitate behavior changes. The aim of our research is to show the ease of use of hybrid mobile applications compared to Web and Native applications. Hybrid mobile apps combine the features of Web apps and Native mobile apps. Like web applications, they are implemented in portable, platform-independent languages such as HTML and JavaScript. They directly access local device resources such as native apps. Transition to hybrid applications has been increasing in recent years with the rapid progress of technology. Although it has performance disadvantages compared to native applications, it is more preferred by software developers due to its ease of use. From the results, it has been determined that the user interface for hybrid applications is simpler to develop with its dynamic structure and it uses mobile device features better in terms of performance when used in hybrid applications.

Development of A Hybrid Mobile App for Student Management System

In the event that the school or college has a large number of employees and students. Courses, student requirements, and time management are all issues that managers face on a daily basis. As a result, the proposed system in this study aims to create a student management system that utilizes a hybrid mobile application to manage student registration activities in schools. Flutter framework and Firebase database were used to create the hybrid app. This project can assist teachers, managers, and students in any school or institute in setting, selecting, and identifying a suitable time for their courses, as determined by the schedule. This project also provides significant benefits to managers in terms of managing student registrations and information.

Comparative Analysis of Hybrid Mobile App Development Frameworks

With the rise of mobile devices and their usage, a lot of development has been made in terms of the development of applications for mobile devices. Traditionally, app development was restricted to the particular operating system, and a separate codebase was required for applications to be developed for multiple operating systems. A new paradigm of development took place in recent years which was of Hybrid app development, leading to the development of multiple frameworks which allowed for a single codebase to be used for multiple operating systems. This paper explores the features and analysis of different hybrid app development frameworks available in the market. A comprehensive analysis has been made to compare the different frameworks which are cross-platform and support web, Android, and iOS platforms. The analysis shows that all the frameworks have their merits and usage of anyone framework over others can vary from case-to-case basis. The detailed analysis of the features will bring a general conclusion over the choice of framework.

Light-Induced Fluorescence-Based Device and Hybrid Mobile App for Oral Hygiene Management at Home: Development and Usability Study.

BackgroundDental diseases can be prevented through the management of dental plaques. Dental plaque can be identified using the light-induced fluorescence (LIF) technique that emits light at 405 nm. The LIF technique is more convenient than the commercial technique using a disclosing agent, but the result may vary for each individual as it still requires visual identification.ObjectiveThe objective of this study is to introduce and validate a deep learning–based oral hygiene monitoring system that makes it easy to identify dental plaques at home.MethodsWe developed a LIF-based system consisting of a device that can visually identify dental plaques and a mobile app that displays the location and area of dental plaques on oral images. The mobile app is programmed to automatically determine the location and distribution of dental plaques using a deep learning–based algorithm and present the results to the user as time series data. The mobile app is also built with convergence of naive and web applications so that the algorithm is executed on a cloud server to efficiently distribute computing resources.ResultsThe location and distribution of users’ dental plaques could be identified via the hand-held LIF device or mobile app. The color correction filter in the device was developed using a color mixing technique. The mobile app was built as a hybrid app combining the functionalities of a native application and a web application. Through the scrollable WebView on the mobile app, changes in the time series of dental plaque could be confirmed. The algorithm for dental plaque detection was implemented to run on Amazon Web Services for object detection by single shot multibox detector and instance segmentation by Mask region-based convolutional neural network.ConclusionsThis paper shows that the system can be used as a home oral care product for timely identification and management of dental plaques. In the future, it is expected that these products will significantly reduce the social costs associated with dental diseases.

OrthoBoard: An Orthopaedic App for Medical Education

Introduction: Use of mobile apps as a pedagogical tool in the medical education has gained popularity as mobile apps have great potentials in perpetuating clinical knowledge and skills. To leverage mobile technology in medical education, we designed a hybrid mobile app based on our undergraduate orthopaedic curriculum. Materials and Methods: The frontend was created using hybrid mobile framework to target both iOS and Android platforms. The backend is powered by Firebase (Google Inc.) to manage authentication and social messaging. The content consisted of basic orthopaedic skills, trauma and resuscitation skills, Islamic input in orthopaedic and information cheatsheets. Results: OrthoBoard is being used by IIUM medical undergraduates as an ancillary source of learning, particularly useful as quick references and visual guides for enhancing orthopaedic knowledge and performing clinical procedures. The social messaging capability built into the app serves as a platform for discussion and exchange of information. This is the first medical app, to our knowledge, that integrates orthopaedic clinical knowledge and practice as well as Islamic input in orthopaedics into teaching and learning with the integration of social messaging as a platform for enhancement of knowledge and practice. Conclusion: Use of mobile apps as pedagogical tool in the medical education will undoubtedly increase in the future. As students and teachers embrace mobile technology in and outside the classroom, better user-centric and subject-specific apps will be required to fulfil the needs. For medical educators, developing mobile apps will possibly be one of the future armamentarium in the delivery of knowledge and skills.

Hybrid Mobile-App. on Multi-MEC Platforms in NFV Environment

In recent times, practicality of web applications has become more reliant upon big-data orientated materials such 4K videos, hi-def. resolution images, lossless audios and massive texts. Structured Query Languages (SQL) faces compatibility issues with large scale databases. Because of this data storage problem, NoSQL databases are used for storing big-data. NoSQL databases have been recently gaining traction with many options such MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis and Apache Cassandra. One of the major restrictions companies, enterprises and developers encounter during developing an application is multiplicative cost of building a native programing across different platforms. Besides, network Function Virtualization (NFV) plays a vital role for providing services for utilizing such applications in larger and more effective scale. Hence, in this paper, we discussed our main motivation behind selecting Iconic Framework, a hybrid system for rapid development real-time application based on Firebase in the NFV environment cooperating with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). As a result, this approach provides comparatively flexible features.

Technical Quality of a Mobile SPOC

<p class="0papertitle">Computer based Learning Environments are mainly shaped by emerging environments such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), SPOCS (Small Private Online Courses) and Mobile learning. This variety challenges the quality of the content delivered in these various environments. In Moroccan higher education, SPOCS is a trending topic widely used in its context of blended learning. The present work focuses on an SPOC delivered as a hybrid mobile app and on factors that define its technical quality. The objective is to propose a set of technical quality factors which are defined following a study of literature, focusing on frameworks, labels, practices that are used to assess the quality of e-learning environments, MOOCs, SPOCs and mobile applications. ISO standards for the quality software and the guidelines for the most dominant Mobile Operating Systems (Android/IOS/Windows phone) are also considered when defining these criteria. The proposed criteria can be twofold used: 1) to assess the technical quality of an existing mobile SPOC; 2) constitutes guidelines to increase the technical quality of a new mobile SPOC</p>

Native vs. Hybrid Mobile Applications as Society Enters the Internet of Things

For nearly two decades, desktops dominated as the primary means of accessing the internet until 2007, the era of mobile phones with touchscreens capability entered the market by Apple Inc. Currently, the high demand of accessibility and mobility through mobile technology is adding more pressure on application developers leaving them to focus more on “meeting deadlines than application security,” which is a critical component as hybrid applications play a significant role in the advancement of IoT and cross-platform compatibility. New technologies are adopting unresolved security issues from the latter. This article aims to initiate discussions within the development and research community regarding hybrid mobile app security, market, role in IoT, advantages, disadvantages, security challenges and the best practices as society enters into a new paradigm envisioned as a ubiquitous global network.

An automatically vetting mechanism for SSL error-handling vulnerability in android hybrid Web apps

A large set of diverse hybrid mobile apps, which use both native Android app UIs and Web UIs, are widely available in today’s smartphones. These hybrid apps usually use SSL or TLS to secure HTTP based communication. However, researchers show that incorrect implementation of SSL or TLS may lead to serious security problems, such as Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks and phishing attacks. This paper investigates a particular SSL vulnerability that results from error-handling code in the hybrid mobile Web apps. Usually such error-handling code is used to terminate an ongoing communication, but the vulnerability of interest is able to make the communication proceed regardless of SSL certificate verification failures, eventually lead to MITM attacks. To identify those vulnerable apps, we develop a hybrid approach, which combines both static analysis and dynamic analysis to (1) automatically distinguish the native Android UIs and Web UIs, and execute the Web UIs to trigger the error-handling code; (2) accurately select the correct paths from the app entry-point to the targeted code, meanwhile avoiding the crash of apps, and populate messaging objects for the communication between components. Specifically, we construct inter-component call graphs to model the connections, and design algorithms to select the paths from the established graph and determine the parameters by backtracing. To evaluate our approach, we have implemented and tested it with 13,820 real world mobile Web apps from Google Play. The experimental results demonstrate that 1,360 apps are detected as potentially vulnerable ones solely using the static analysis. The dynamic analysis process further confirms that 711 apps are truly vulnerable among the potentially vulnerable set.

Automatic permission inference for hybrid mobile apps

The application permission system is one of the key components of Android security. Developers often use it incorrectly and claim more permissions than necessary, due to limitations of developers' knowledge and development tools. When application's vulnerabilities are exploited, the additional permissions give attackers more capability to carry out attacks. Hybrid mobile applications (apps) are a class of mobile apps that are built from web technologies, such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. In such applications, it is often easier to inject third-party code through vulnerabilities. When developers do not specify app's permissions correctly, the injected code will result in dangerous actions breaching system security. In this paper, we develop an automatic tool to assist developers to identify the permissions required by the apps based on the hybrid mobile apps' runtime permission checking.

Evolution of a Structure-Searchable Database into a Prototype for a High-Fidelity SmartPhone App for 62 Common Pesticides Used in Delaware.

Synthetic pesticides are widely used in the modern world for human benefit. They are usually classified according to their intended pest target. In Delaware (DE), approximately 42 percent of the arable land is used for agriculture. In order to manage insectivorous and herbaceous pests (such as insects, weeds, nematodes, and rodents), pesticides are used profusely to biologically control the normal pest's life stage. In this undergraduate project, we first created a usable relational database containing 62 agricultural pesticides that are common in Delaware. Chemically pertinent quantitative and qualitative information was first stored in Bio-Rad's KnowItAll® Informatics System. Next, we extracted the data out of the KnowItAll® system and created additional sections on a Microsoft® Excel spreadsheet detailing pesticide use(s) and safety and handling information. Finally, in an effort to promote good agricultural practices, to increase efficiency in business decisions, and to make pesticide data globally accessible, we developed a mobile application for smartphones that displayed the pesticide database using Appery.io™; a cloud-based HyperText Markup Language (HTML5), jQuery Mobile and Hybrid Mobile app builder.