Paas EUD Tool for Developing Expert Context-Aware Mobile Applications

• Published in: International journal of recent technology and engineering Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 215 - 224
• Main Authors: Elshafei, Sahar, Hassanein, Ehab, Elazhary, Hanan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 30.07.2021
• ISSN: 2277-3878; 2277-3878
• DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.B6273.0710221

Context-awareness enables systems to be tailored to the needs of users and their real circumstances at certain times. A noteworthy trend in software development is that an increasing number of software systems are being developed by individuals with expert knowledge in other sectors. Because most of the current context-aware development toolkits are intended for software developers, these types of systems cannot be easily developed by non-technical consumers. The development of tools for designing context-aware frameworks by consumers who are not programming experts but are specialists in the area of implementation would result in faster adoption of such services by businesses. This paper provides a cloud-based framework for people without programming experience to create context-aware mobile applications. The platform can provide a lightweight distribution of packaged applications that allows experts to send specified information to mobile users based on their context data without overlapping between the rules of the application. An energy-efficient mobile application was developed to acquire contextual information from the user device and to create quality data accordingly. The framework adopts Platform as a Service (PaaS) and containerization to facilitate development of context-aware mobile applications by experts in various domains rather than developing a tool for each domain in isolation, while considering multitenancy.