Windows Phone Research Articles

Implementasi Audio Steganografi menggunakan 4th LSB dan Advanced Encryption Standard pada Windows Phone

Securing data during transmission become one of the problem in technology, those data can be intercepted and read by others. One preventive action to overcome this is by using steganography. This thesis implements an audio steganography using Windows Phone. Combination of Advanced Encryption Standard to secure data and Audio Wave Steganography which embedded data inside 4th LSB layer, resulting in increased safety and robustness against noise addition compared to 1st LSB.
 Index Terms—Advanced Encryption Standard, Audio Steganography, Audio Wave Steganography, Least Significant Bit, Windows Phone.

Mobile Applications for Control and Self Management of Diabetes: A Systematic Review.

Mobile applications (apps) can be very useful software on smartphones for all aspects of people's lives. Chronic diseases, such as diabetes, can be made manageable with the support of mobile apps. Applications on smartphones can also help people with diabetes to control their fitness and health. A systematic review of free apps in the English language for smartphones in three of the most popular mobile app stores: Google Play (Android), App Store (iOS) and Windows Phone Store, was performed from November to December 2015. The review of freely available mobile apps for self-management of diabetes was conducted based on the criteria for promoting diabetes self-management as defined by Goyal and Cafazzo (monitoring blood glucose level and medication, nutrition, physical exercise and body weight). The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) was followed. Three independent experts in the field of healthcare-related mobile apps were included in the assessment for eligibility and testing phase. We tested and evaluated 65 apps (21 from Google Play Store, 31 from App Store and 13 from Windows Phone Store). Fifty-six of these apps did not meet even minimal requirements or did not work properly. While a wide selection of mobile applications is available for self-management of diabetes, current results show that there are only nine (5 from Google Play Store, 3 from App Store and 1 from Windows Phone Store) out of 65 reviewed mobile apps that can be versatile and useful for successful self-management of diabetes based on selection criteria. The levels of inclusion of features based on selection criteria in selected mobile apps can be very different. The results of the study can be used as a basis to prvide app developers with certain recommendations. There is a need for mobile apps for self-management of diabetes with more features in order to increase the number of long-term users and thus influence better self-management of the disease.

Performing computation offloading on multiple platforms

Mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets are increasingly important tools in daily routine. These devices generally interact with more powerful machines usually hosted on public clouds. In this context, this paper presents MpOS (Multiplatform Offloading System), a framework that supports a method-based offloading technique for applications of different mobile platforms (Android and Windows Phone). In addition, details of MpOS main components and services as well as code examples are presented. To evaluate the proposed solution and to analyse the impact of different serialization types on the offloading performance, we developed two applications and performed several experiments on both Android and Windows Phone platforms using WiFi and 4G/LTE connections to access the remote execution environments. Our results state that offloading to a cloudlet has provided the best performance for both Android and Windows Phone platforms, beyond showing that the type of serialization used by the framework directly impacts on the offloading performance.

RANCANG BANGUN APLIKASI RESERVASI TIKET PESAWAT ONLINE BERBASIS ANDROID

Ticket reservation of information system is data in physical shape that given bycompany to customers to get service from the company orget the goods which contained in it. And usually in the form of paper ticket that has specific explanation which represented value. The main goal of this research is to design application of aeroplane ticket reservation based on windows phone using DAD (DisciplinedAgileDelivery ) methodology. And it can provide information for people who want travel by air transportation, good information about aeroplane, the flight schedule, and ticket reservation to each destination. Design ticket reservation online based on Android has been successful and implemented with application features such as flight schedules, checking ticket, booking ticket, and register as a member.

APLIKASI GAME CAK INGKLING BERBASIS ANDROID

Game has been the one thing that is in our daily lives. Formerly only used as a means of entertainment games alone, but now the game has become wide functions, such as games can be used as a learning tool, a business area, and competed as one of the sport by professionals. Game development platform can also be viewed directly by the public, at first only games played on computer and console but has now entered the era of mobile game android and Windows Phone. A distinct advantage is the portability of mobile game play, that player can play games anywhere they want as long as they have mobile devices capable of running mobile games.Game developed a modification of the traditional game smack ingkling aimed at children aged 6-13 years , This game has 3 levels where each level the player will be given about the question. The design of this game uses the android operating system. In addition, this game was built using a programming language actionscrpit contained in Adobe Flash CS6. In the development of this game using MDLC (Multimedia Development Life Cycle) with five stages that have been made that concept, design, material colecting, assembly, and testing. Design and manufacture of this game is aimed at preserving the traditional game smack ingkling to be a trend back in the era of smartphones today.Keywords: Traditional games, hopscotch, MDLC, Android.

Big Data in mental health: a challenging fragmented future.

Big Data has been a buzzword in almost every possible field during the last few years. The rapid integration of massive amounts of information from diverse sources fed the hope for a new era also in health sciences. Following its impact on other fields (i.e., marketing and commerce), many authors hypothesized that, by dynamically merging diverse datasets and a mining process, groundbreaking conclusions would be obtained in almost every medical specialty. This would, allegedly, represent a paradigm shift on how research is performed and, as a consequence, a dramatic change in clinical practice1.

Forensic data acquisition from cloud‐of‐things devices: windows Smartphones as a case study

SummaryThe continued amalgamation of cloud technologies into all aspects of our daily lives and the technologies we use (i.e. cloud‐of‐things) creates business opportunities, security and privacy risks, and investigative challenges (in the event of a cybersecurity incident). This study examines the extent to which data acquisition from Windows phone, a common cloud‐of‐thing device, is supported by three popular mobile forensics tools. The effect of device settings modification (i.e. enabling screen lock and device reset operations) and alternative acquisition processes (i.e. individual and combined acquisition) on the extraction results are also examined. Our results show that current mobile forensic tool support for Windows Phone 8 remains limited. The results also showed that logical acquisition support was more complete in comparison to physical acquisition support. In one example, the tool was able to complete a physical acquisition of a Nokia Lumia 625, but its deleted contacts and SMSs could not be recovered/extracted. In addition we found that separate acquisition is needed for device removable media to maximize acquisition results, particularly when trying to recover deleted data. Furthermore, enabling flight‐mode and disabling location services are highly recommended to eliminate the potential for data alteration during the acquisition process. These results should provide practitioners with an overview of the current capability of mobile forensic tools and the challenges in successfully extracting evidence from the Windows phone platform. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

How traditional banks are innovating the basics to provide customers with an Uber-like mobile banking experience

The mobile space is evolving rapidly as banks in the developed world are taking a ‘mobile-first’ approach to digital development. The need to take a mobile-first approach is driven by a handful of factors, one of which is that the mobile device is increasingly being used as a channel to consume goods and services. From buying a flight ticket to booking a household cleaner, there is an app for almost everything. These apps are changing customers' expectations as they expect a seamless experience, minimal points of friction and value from engaging with the app. Time and time again, Uber-like organisations are cited as the apps that have and will change the app-based economy, and banks are using the success of this app as guidance for developing great mobile banking experiences. As banks look to Uber-like organisations to improve the experience, it is tempting to roll out new, untested experiences in an attempt to ‘revolutionise’ the mobile banking space. However, this paper will demonstrate that banks should instead focus on fixing the basics and create an Uber-like experience within core banking functionality. Although it is worth noting that the distinction between mobile and internet is blurring, and some argue that one can use internet banking through mobile devices, we believe there are clear benefits to investing in apps. First, looking at distribution, customers will look for a brand in various ways and whether a bank decides to serve these customers around HTML, web and others. It is important to ensure customers can find the solution in their respective app store, search engine and the public website. The second is the development of native technology. HTML, hybrid technologies and native code have improved significantly over the last couple of years and each has its respective advantages and disadvantages which means today there is no such a thing as one solution fits all. Notwithstanding some potential disadvantages such as increased cost (build for iOS, Android and Windows Phone), we wanted to highlight the fact that native code allows for certain additional layers of security on the device (eg device registration) that are not yet fully possible in HTML and hybrid.

Mobile Programming in Windows Phone and Android Applications and the differences between them

Mobile Programming in Windows Phone and Android Applications and the differences between them

Cross-platform Mobile Development Approaches: A Systematic Review

Nowadays, there are at least four important mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone). The main challenge for mobile application developers is to provide their solution across all these platforms. Cross-platform development approaches emerged to address this challenge by allowing developers to implement their applications in one step for a range of platforms, avoiding repetition and increasing productivity. We will present a systematic review where we define and explain the different approaches used in cross-platform development in order to achieve a comparison between these approaches allowing us to identify the strong points, and weaknesses of each approach.

Modeling and Code Generation of Android Applications Using Acceleo

The development of mobile applications becomes increasingly popular in our daily life due to the intensive use of applications in mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. The diversity and variety of mobile operating systems (Android, iOS, Black Berry, Windows Phone, etc.) make software engineers in front of a big challenge to develop the same application for these different platforms. This paper presents a methodology based on the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) to develop mobile applications according to the principle “develops once, use everywhere”. Our approach exploits UML modeling and Acceleo to generate specific code in order to accelerate and facilitate the development of mobile applications.

Code Generation Approach for Mobile Application Using Acceleo

Today, the development of mobile applications becomes more important and increasingly popular in our environment due to the intensive use of applications in mobile devices. The diversity of mobile operating systems (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc.) makes software engineers facing a real challenge to develop the same applications for these different platforms. Given this development complexity, we directed our work to platforms using Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach. This paper presents a methodology based on the MDA approach to develop mobile applications according to the principal ‘Develop Once, Use Everywhere’. Our approach exploits UML modeling and Acceleo to generate specific code in order to facilitate and accelerate the development of mobile applications. That is why we have developed two meta-models handling UML class diagrams and Android applications, then we have to set up transformation rules. The transformation rules defined in this paper can generate, from the class diagram, a classes Java files containing the necessary code of a mobile application.

System Design of Mobile Augmented Book

Mobile technologies play an increasingly important role in education. Devices such as smart phones and tablets are becoming powerful tools in the hands for e-Learning, m-Learning and ubiquitous learning. In this paper, the authors propose analysis and design software architecture of a mobile augmented book for in-class and out-class learning. The aim is to improve the quality and usefulness of mobile learning by utilizing a physical book and a mobile device. Requirements, roles, and system architecture are discussed in terms of adaptive learning. The system architecture is based on a three-tier model; presentation tier, application logic tier and data tier. The application logic tier is comprised of four main components including 1) Profile/Registration, 2) Content/ Administration, 3) Communication 4) Quiz and 5) Report. The data tier consists of 1) Cloud Service, 2) Media Server and 3) Database. The presentation tier is designed to support all mobile devices--smart phones and tablets and all popular platforms including Android, iOS, Windows phone, Tizen, Ubuntu, Firefox and BlackBerry. JSON and Streaming media are used for the communications between the presentation tier (client devices) and the application logic tier. The data tier consists of 1) repository using cloud service and media server for storing and retrieving digital contents and 2) database for credentials, content descriptions and meta-data.

MELT 2015 workshop report

After a decade of research and development for GPS-less localization and tracking, there has been significant progress in location-awareness and location-based services around the world. Almost all cell phone platforms, Android, iPhone and Windows phones, have localization and tracking facilities. In addition, special hardware and infrastructure (e.g., RFID, UWB and BLE or sensor tags) have been developed and deployed for tracking people and merchandise. The advances in cameras and computer vision make it possible for cheap simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). However, there are still many challenging problems to be solved, such as accuracy, power management, effective sensor fusion with increasingly powerful embedded computation and resourceful parallel computing backend, learning, transmitting and storing individual trajectories and spatial environment representation, labor-less environmental survey or infrastructure establishment for location-awareness, crowd computing or collective intelligence for map creations, and big data analytics of real-time and historical semantic locations that helps improving efficiency for both consumers and businesses.

Evaluating Mobile Phones and Web Sites for Academic Information Needs

In the last decade, there has been an exponential growth in use of mobile phones among people. Smart phone invention has digitized life of a common man especially after introduction of 3G/4G technology. People are used to use Internet on the move because of this advancement in technology. This advancement has also motivated usability design researchers to propose more usable designs for both smart phones and web sites. This work focuses on evaluation of web usability of mobile phones as well as usability of university web sites. Evaluation is performed on the most popular mobile phones required by the most common mobile users. Selection of the most popular mobile devices, the most common mobile users and their web usage is done by conducting a very detailed survey in the local market. Survey concludes that students and labors are the most common buyers of mobile phones and we choose three mobiles phones from the category of most popular phones that are iPhone (iPhone 4 precisely), Q-Mobile (Q Mobile A35) and Windows phone (Lumia 535). Six participants (three male and three females) are selected for fully detailed and rigorous task-based usability testing with “think aloud” technique. Task scenarios are defined to evaluate the usability of both i.e. smart phones and chosen university web sites. From results of usability testing, we find out that iPhone has better usability design as far as its response time is concerned while Q Mobile ranks second and Microsoft Windows phone takes last position in this ranking. Usability evaluation of university web sites on these mobile phones concludes that web site of Islamia university of Bahawalpur (I.U.B, Bahawalpur) has better mobile usability design and Bahauddin Zakariya university (BZU, Multan) and NFC Institute of Engineering and Technology NFCIET, Multan) second and third respectively and while web site of Institute of Southern Punjab (ISP, Multan) comes last when measured in terms of task completion time. All tests are performed on wireless network when internet download speed is between 3MBPS to 3.2MBPS.

Advanced Algorithms for Location-Based Smart Mobile Augmented Reality Applications

During the last years, the computational capabilities of smart mobile devices have been continuously improved by hardware vendors, raising new opportunities for mobile application engineers. Mobile augmented reality is one scenario demonstrating that smart mobile applications are becoming increasingly mature. In the AREA (Augmented Reality Engine Application) project, we developed a kernel that enables such location-based mobile augmented reality applications. On top of the kernel, mobile application developers can easily realize their individual applications. The kernel, in turn, focuses on robustness and high performance. In addition, it provides a flexible architecture that fosters the development of individual location-based mobile augmented reality applications. In the first stage of the project, the LocationView concept was developed as the core for realizing the kernel algorithms. This LocationView concept has proven its usefulness in the context of various applications, running on iOS, Android, or Windows Phone. Due to the further evolution of computational capabilities on one hand and emerging demands of location-based mobile applications on the other, we developed a new kernel concept. In particular, the new kernel allows for handling points of interests (POI) clusters or enables the use of tracks. These changes required new concepts presented in this paper. To demonstrate the applicability of our kernel, we apply it in the context of various mobile applications. As a result, mobile augmented reality applications could be run on present mobile operating systems and be effectively realized by engineers utilizing our approach. We regard such applications as a good example for using mobile computational capabilities efficiently in order to support mobile users in everyday life more properly.

Generating native user interfaces for multiple devices by means of model transformation

In the last years, the types of devices used to access information systems have notably increased using different operating systems, screen sizes, interaction mechanisms, and software features. This device fragmentation is an important issue to tackle when developing native mobile service front-end applications. To address this issue, we propose the generation of native user interfaces (UIs) by means of model transformations, following the modelbased user interface (MBUI) paradigm. The resulting MBUI framework, called LIZARD, generates applications for multiple target platforms. LIZARD allows the definition of applications at a high level of abstraction, and applies model transformations to generate the target native UI considering the specific features of target platforms. The generated applications follow the UI design guidelines and the architectural and design patterns specified by the corresponding operating system manufacturer. The objective is not to generate generic applications following the lowest-common-denominator approach, but to follow the particular guidelines specified for each target device. We present an example application modeled in LIZARD, generating different UIs for Windows Phone and two types of Android devices (smartphones and tablets).

Automating mobile application development: UML-based code generation for Android and Windows Phone

This paper proposes a MDD approach for mobile application development, which includes modeling and code generation strategies for An- droid and Windows Phone. UML class and sequence diagrams are employed for modeling mobile applications and code is generated from this model. To support the automatic code generation, GenCode was re-structured and ex- tended to meet the particularities of these two platforms. As result, GenCode’s current version is able to automatically generate Java-Android and C# codes, according to the specified application model and target platform. Finally, case studies are used to demonstrate the proposed approach, as well as to validate the code generation tool.

An Extended Research on the Blood Donor Community as a Mobile Application

In the developing and the least developed countries, the number of blood banks are limited and it is hard to find a blood donor with exact blood group in a crucial moment. Patients have to suffer a lot and in some cases, death is inevitable. Emergency situations like- accidents, ongoing treatments and elective surgeries create critical and immediate need for specific group of blood. In this regards, a little attention has been given on the easier availability of blood from nearest locations. In this paper, we propose a mobile phone application by which anyone will be able to look for their desired blood group at the nearest location. A large number of people is currently using smartphones running on different operating systems. The application will be developed in different platforms e.g. Android, Windows Phone or iOS, where only registered person, with willingness to donate blood will be able to access the service.

Smartphones and dental trauma: the current availability of apps for managing traumatic dental injuries.

There is a general consensus regarding the lack of awareness regarding the emergency management of traumatic dental injuries amongst laypersons and dental professionals. This article aims to provide an overview of the apps available for traumatic dental injuries using smartphones. These apps may serve as a gateway for raising awareness of traumatic dental injuries. Three smartphone devices were used to access their respective app stores (Nokia Lumia 635 with Windows Phone OS 8.1; iPhone 5 with iOS 8.1; Samsung Galaxy Ace II with Android OS v2.3.6 Gingerbread). Nine phrases were searched: broken tooth/teeth; chipped tooth/teeth; dental emergency; dental injury; dental trauma; fractured tooth/teeth; knocked-out tooth/teeth; tooth/teeth injury; and tooth/teeth trauma. Seven apps for the Android and one app for the Apple operating system were relevant. The only Apple iOS app retrieved (Dental Trauma) was also found for the Android OS (Dental Trauma First Aid) and had the endorsement of the International Association of Dental Traumatology. AcciDent was the only app dedicated to traumatic dental injuries targeted solely towards dental professionals. Five other apps (Chipped Tooth Solution, Dental Crown Repair, Fixing Cracked Tooth, Repairing the Front Tooth and Solution to Broken Tooth) appeared to come from the same source (KBES). No traumatic dental injury apps were found for the Windows Phone OS. There are apps available for both patients and dentists that range in quality and on the whole lack real-life photographs. Future apps should continue to provide good quality, evidence-based and validated material.