Download or read book Smartphone and App Implementations that Improve Productivity written by Tahir M. Nisar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of digital applications into businesses has revolutionized the way employees and managers carry out their jobs while also benefiting them socially. Smartphone and App Implementations that Improve Productivity looks at the benefits of apps in the workplace and introduces academic perspectives that link prospective advantages with practical commercial examples. The analysis is structured into chapters that include real world application while at the same time critically assess implied benefits of the new app technology and draw out the main findings and conclusions. Tahir M. Nisar brings into focus the emerging role of digital applications and big data in enterprise decision making. Readers will learn how companies can achieve more efficiency and effectiveness in their business operations through new types of organizational design strategies and mechanisms of employee mobility and work-life balance that draw on digital apps.

Download or read book Smartphone and App Implementations that Improve Productivity written by Tahir M. Nisar and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction of digital applications into businesses has revolutionized the way employees and managers carry out their jobs while also benefiting them socially. Smartphone and App Implementations that Improve Productivity looks at the benefits of apps in the workplace and introduces academic perspectives that link prospective advantages with practical commercial examples. The analysis is structured into chapters that include real world application while at the same time critically assess implied benefits of the new app technology and draw out the main findings and conclusions. Tahir M. Nisar brings into focus the emerging role of digital applications and big data in enterprise decision making. Readers will learn how companies can achieve more efficiency and effectiveness in their business operations through new types of organizational design strategies and mechanisms of employee mobility and work-life balance that draw on digital apps.

Download or read book How to Maximize Your Productivity written by Michael Smart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Maximize Your Productivity: 20 Most Useful Apps for iPhone, iPad, Android and Kindle Fire Getting enough done each day is a daunting prospect. There is just so much going on in the modern world. Things jump up to grab our attention no matter where we go, and there's just no escaping it for the majority of people. Are you tired of your smartphone or tablet going to waste? It seems that, apart from contacting people via calls and messages, they do nothing but distract us from getting things done. What if I told you that your mobile device can actually be the best productivity tool that you could possibly own? Well, that's exactly what this book is going to demonstrate. Better still, you'll learn about the top 20 most useful and powerful mobile apps, for getting things done and being productive. What kinds of apps are included in this book? Calendars Office and writing Note taking and clipping Collaboration Staying on task Mind mapping Finances Tasks and goals Reading on your device Social media tools Miscellaneous apps you never realized you needed! Best of all-the majority of these apps are free to use! So, why continue to let that powerful computer in your pocket go untapped? You paid good money for it, so please allow us to show you how to truly use it. Download your E book "How to Maximize Your Productivity: 20 Most Useful Apps for iPhone, iPad, Android and Kindle Fire" by scrolling up and clicking "Buy Now with 1-Click" button!

Download or read book Improving the Performance of Smartphone Apps with Soft Hang Bug Detection and Dynamic Resource Management written by Marco Brocanelli and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second, in order to ensure good user-perceived performance of concurrent apps and low energy consumption, we propose SURF, Supervisory control of User-perceived peRFormance. Specifically, first, SURF dynamically balances the performance of the concurrent apps to regulate the resource allocation among the concurrent apps according to their actual performance needs. Then, when the concurrent foreground apps have balanced performance, SURF manipulates CPU DVFS (dynamic voltage and frequency scaling) to ensure that the user-perceived performance of all the apps stay close to their desired values while minimizing the energy consumption. A key advantage of SURF is that it is designed rigorously based on supervisory control theory, which provides analytical stability and performance guarantees compared to heuristic solutions. We test SURF on several mobile device models with real-world open-source apps and show that it can reduce the CPU energy consumption by 30-90% compared to state-of-the-art solutions while causing no perceivable performance degradation.

Download or read book Improving the Performance and Reliability of Mobile Applications written by Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mobile application ("app") ecosystem has grown at a tremendous pace with millions of apps and hundreds of thousands of app developers. Mobile apps run across a wide range of network, hardware, location, and usage conditions that are hard for developers to emulate or even anticipate during lab testing. Hence, app failures and performance problems are common in the wild. Scarce resources, shift away from familiar synchronous programming models, and poor development support has made it more difficult for app developers to overcome these problems. This dissertation focuses on systems that make it significantly easy for app developers to diagnose and improve their mobile apps. To reduce user annoyance and survive the brutally competitive mobile app marketplace, developers need systems that (i) identify potential failures before the app is released, (ii) diagnose problems after the app is deployed in the wild, and (iii) provide reliable app performance in the face of varying conditions in the wild. This dissertation presents systems that satisfy these needs. VanarSena makes it easy to diagnose common failures in mobile apps before deployment, AppInsight makes it easy to monitor mobile apps after deployment, and Timecard allows mobile apps to adapt to conditions in the wild and provide consistent performance. For the legion of amateur app developers with fewer resources at hand, these systems significantly reduce the barrier for diagnosing and improving mobile apps. The systems are built on top of a binary instrumentation framework that automatically rewrites app binary at bytecode level. Hence, using them requires minimal effort on part of the app developer. The systems include novel instrumentation techniques to automatically track the runtime behavior of the app. To cope with the scarcity of resources, they include resource-aware mechanisms that incur negligible overhead. To make them immediately deployable, they are designed to require no modification to the OS or runtime. We have built VanarSena, AppInsight, and Timecard for the Windows Phone platform. VanarSena does automated app testing by systematically emulating user interactions and fault conditions from the wild to uncover app failures. VanarSena uncovered 2,969 distinct crashes in more than 1,100 apps in the app store. AppInsight does light-weight monitoring of mobile apps in the wild. It automatically instruments the app binary to track performance and failures. AppInsight uncovered several performance bottlenecks and crashes in the wild and has provided useful feedback to developers. Timecard enables apps to adapt at runtime and provide consistent performance in the face of varying conditions in the wild. Timecard can tightly control the response time around a desired user-perceived delay.

Download or read book Optimize the Resource Efficiency of Smartphone Apps Through Characterization and Data Mining Approaches written by Li Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proliferation of data-enabled smart devices has fueled the popularity of mobile applications (apps) at a rapid speed. As the popularity of the mobile apps continues to grow, the various services provided by apps start to pose pressure to the underlying hardware manufacture techniques and resource management schemes. However, improving the resource efficiency of smartphone apps are challenging, since the apps' performance and resource bottlenecks remain hidden to app users even app developers due to the lack of visibility into the resource-constrained mobile execution environment. What makes it worse is the rising of the trend of integrating Mobile Open APIs into apps which renders the app developers unable to completely control the process of their code execution. Facing these challenges, we applied a two-step framework to enhance the resource efficiency of smartphone apps. The first step of the framework is using the state-of-art measurement techniques to identify the unnecessary resource cost in the smartphone apps, where the cost refers to energy consumption, monthly data plan usage, the CPU and the RAM occupancy and users' waiting time (latency). Comprehensive characterization of the mobile apps are conducted on three granularity levels: per app level, per transition state level, and per API function call level. In the per app level characterization, we focus on identifying the overhead traffic generated by the free mobile apps, where the overhead is mainly consisted of ads traffic and user context analytics traffic. In the per transition state level characterization, we characterize the behaviors and the resource usage in each transitions state of the extremely popular Mobile Instant Messaging apps, e.g. WhatsApp, WeChat, Line and Facebook Messenger. In the per API function level, we develop a Linux Shell based software toolkit (APIX) to extract the Open API calls from the Android app files (.apk). Then we implement a series of Android apps (APISymphone) to lively monitor the performance of most widely used mobile Open APIs in 7 different cities over the world, e.g. Sydney (Australia), Dublin (Ireland), San Jose (USA) and Sao Paulo (Brazil). After careful characterization and analysis, we apply data mining skills to improve the resource efficiency of the smartphone apps. By observing the empirical evidence that the accelerometer sensors found in today's smartphones are sensitive to human voice and consume much less energy than the microphones, we develop a machine learning system (AccelWord) based on the accelerometer readings to achieve accurate hotword detection on smartphones, where hotword detection is a required and continuously energy consuming function in smartphones' voice-as input apps such as Google Now and Samsung S Voice. Comprehensive experimental results show the AccelWord system can achieve similar accuracy of microphone based hotword detection methods but consumes much less energy.

Download or read book Professional Microsoft Smartphone Programming written by Baijian Yang and published by Wrox. This book was released on 2007-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Professor Yang and Dr. Zheng are two of the passionate young researchers in the field with a lot of hands-on experience. Professor Ni, on the other hand, is a veteran in wireless technologies, 2.5G/3G cellular phones, and embedded systems. The energy, the hands-on experience, and the long-term vision ensure that the book is of highest quality." --From the foreword by Ya-Qin Zhang, Corporate Vice President for Research, Microsoft China The second-generation Smartphone applications are exclusively designed to leverage the advantages of mobility and ubiquitous wireless access. This book provides you with an in-depth look at software development issues and design guidelines, and helps you gain the skills you need to develop your own efficient and feature-rich Smartphone applications that utilize the latest cutting-edge technologies. Complete with code and examples, the book first walks you through the Microsoft Smartphone platform from a software developer's perspective. It next uncovers the .NET Compact Framework as well as the Smartphone programming environment. You'll then find detailed information on Microsoft Smartphone-related application design and programming topics in the domains of the .NET Compact Framework (managed code). Plus, you'll explore advanced development topics such as security and performance considerations that you'll be able to incorporate into your own applications. What you will learn from this book * How to use the programming framework and classes available in Windows Mobile and Smartphone SDK * The fundamentals of .NET Compact Framework 2.0 * Techniques for developing your own robust Smartphone applications * Steps for customizing components and P/Invoke * How to enhance data and communication security * Ways to improve the performance of your applications * Fundamental techniques for supporting world-ready applications Who this book is for This book is for software architects and developers working in the area of mobile application development as well as professionals who want a quick and thorough overview of the Microsoft Smartphone software development platform. Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Download or read book Assisting Developers and Users in Developing and Choosing Efficient Mobile Device Apps written by Rubén Saborido Infantes and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobile device applications (apps) play nowadays a central role in our life. Although energy consumption affects battery life of mobile devices and limits device use, we use them almost anywhere, all the time, and for almost everything. With the exponential growth of the market of mobile device apps in recent years, developers have witnessed a radical change in the landscape of software development. Mobile apps introduce new challenges in software design and implementation due to the constraints of internal resources (such as battery, CPU, and memory), as well as external resources (as data usage). Thus, traditional non-functional requirements, such as functionality and maintainability, have been overshadowed by performance. Researchers are actively investigating the role of coding practices on energy consumption. However, CPU, memory, and network usages are also important performance metrics. Although the hardware of mobile devices has considerably improved in recent years, emerging market users own low-devices and have limited access to data connection. Therefore, developers should manage resources mindfully because emerging markets own a significant share of the new users coming on-line for the first time. Thus, the performance of mobile device apps is a very important topic. Recent studies suggest that software engineers can help reduce energy consumption by considering the energy impacts of their design and implementation decisions. But developers'decisions also have an impact on CPU, memory, and network usages. So that, developers must take into account performance when evolving the design of mobile device apps. The problem is that mobile device app developers have no support to understand the impact of their decisions on their apps performance. This problem is also true for mobile device users who install apps ignoring if there exist more efficient alternatives. In this dissertation we help developers and users to know more about the impact of their decisions on the performance of apps they develop and consume, respectively. Thus, we want to assist developers and users in developing and choosing, respectively, efficient mobile device apps. We provide observations, techniques, and guidelines to help developers make informed decisions to improve the performance of their apps. We also propose an approach to complement mobile device app marketplaces to assist developers and users to search for efficient apps. Our contribution is a valuable step towards efficient software engineering for mobile device apps and a benefit for mobile device users who want to use efficient apps.

Download or read book Information and Communications for Development 2012 written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing what has worked, what hasn't, and why, this triennial report is an invaluable guide for understanding how to capture the benefits of information and communication technology around the world. This year's report focuses on mobile applications.

Download or read book Model Driven Software Development written by Markus Völter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) is currently a highly regarded development paradigm among developers and researchers. With the advent of OMG's MDA and Microsoft's Software Factories, the MDSD approach has moved to the centre of the programmer's attention, becoming the focus of conferences such as OOPSLA, JAOO and OOP. MDSD is about using domain-specific languages to create models that express application structure or behaviour in an efficient and domain-specific way. These models are subsequently transformed into executable code by a sequence of model transformations. This practical guide for software architects and developers is peppered with practical examples and extensive case studies. International experts deliver: * A comprehensive overview of MDSD and how it relates to industry standards such as MDA and Software Factories. * Technical details on meta modeling, DSL construction, model-to-model and model-to-code transformations, and software architecture. * Invaluable insight into the software development process, plus engineering issues such as versioning, testing and product line engineering. * Essential management knowledge covering economic and organizational topics, from a global perspective. Get started and benefit from some practical support along the way!

Download or read book Model Driven Software Engineering in Practice written by Marco Brambilla and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how model-based approaches can improve the daily practice of software professionals. This is known as Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) or, simply, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). MDSE practices have proved to increase efficiency and effectiveness in software development, as demonstrated by various quantitative and qualitative studies. MDSE adoption in the software industry is foreseen to grow exponentially in the near future, e.g., due to the convergence of software development and business analysis. The aim of this book is to provide you with an agile and flexible tool to introduce you to the MDSE world, thus allowing you to quickly understand its basic principles and techniques and to choose the right set of MDSE instruments for your needs so that you can start to benefit from MDSE right away. The book is organized into two main parts. The first part discusses the foundations of MDSE in terms of basic concepts (i.e., models and transformations), driving principles, application scenarios, and current standards, like the well-known MDA initiative proposed by OMG (Object Management Group) as well as the practices on how to integrate MDSE in existing development processes. The second part deals with the technical aspects of MDSE, spanning from the basics on when and how to build a domain-specific modeling language, to the description of Model-to-Text and Model-to-Model transformations, and the tools that support the management of MDSE projects. The second edition of the book features: a set of completely new topics, including: full example of the creation of a new modeling language (IFML), discussion of modeling issues and approaches in specific domains, like business process modeling, user interaction modeling, and enterprise architecture complete revision of examples, figures, and text, for improving readability, understandability, and coherence better formulation of definitions, dependencies between concepts and ideas addition of a complete index of book content In addition to the contents of the book, more resources are provided on the book's website http://www.mdse-book.com, including the examples presented in the book.

Download or read book App Empire written by Chad Mureta and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to building wealth by designing, creating, and marketing a successful app across any platform Chad Mureta has made millions starting and running his own successful app business, and now he explains how you can do it, too, in this non-technical, easy-to-follow guide. App Empire provides the confidence and the tools necessary for taking the next step towards financial success and freedom. The book caters to many platforms including iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry. This book includes real-world examples to inspire those who are looking to cash in on the App gold rush. Learn how to set up your business so that it works while you don't, and turn a simple idea into a passive revenue stream. Discover marketing strategies that few developers know and/or use Learn the success formula for getting thousands of downloads a day for one App Learn the secret to why some Apps get visibility while others don't Get insights to help you understand the App store market App Empire delivers advice on the most essential things you must do in order to achieve success with an app. Turn your simple app idea into cash flow today!

Download or read book Mobile Phone Programming written by Frank H. P. Fitzek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a solid overview of mobile phone programming for readers in both academia and industry. Coverage includes all commercial realizations of the Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux platforms. The text introduces each programming language (JAVA, Python, C/C++) and offers a set of development environments "step by step," to help familiarize developers with limitations, pitfalls, and challenges.

Download or read book Smart Phone and Next Generation Mobile Computing written by Pei Zheng and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth technical guide is an essential resource for anyone involved in the development of "smart mobile wireless technology, including devices, infrastructure, and applications. Written by researchers active in both academic and industry settings, it offers both a big-picture introduction to the topic and detailed insights into the technical details underlying all of the key trends. Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing shows you how the field has evolved, its real and potential current capabilities, and the issues affecting its future direction. It lays a solid foundation for the decisions you face in your work, whether you're a manager, engineer, designer, or entrepreneur. - Covers the convergence of phone and PDA functionality on the terminal side, and the integration of different network types on the infrastructure side - Compares existing and anticipated wireless technologies, focusing on 3G cellular networks and wireless LANs - Evaluates terminal-side operating systems/programming environments, including Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Symbian, J2ME, and Linux - Considers the limitations of existing terminal designs and several pressing application design issues - Explores challenges and possible solutions relating to the next phase of smart phone development, as it relates to services, devices, and networks - Surveys a collection of promising applications, in areas ranging from gaming to law enforcement to financial processing

Download or read book Enterprise Mobility written by Rahul C. Basole and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published in the journal 'Information knowledge systems management' 7, 1-2 (2008), ISSN 1389-1995.

Download or read book Implementing Service Level Objectives written by Alex Hidalgo and published by O'Reilly Media. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although service-level objectives (SLOs) continue to grow in importance, there’s a distinct lack of information about how to implement them. Practical advice that does exist usually assumes that your team already has the infrastructure, tooling, and culture in place. In this book, recognized SLO expert Alex Hidalgo explains how to build an SLO culture from the ground up. Ideal as a primer and daily reference for anyone creating both the culture and tooling necessary for SLO-based approaches to reliability, this guide provides detailed analysis of advanced SLO and service-level indicator (SLI) techniques. Armed with mathematical models and statistical knowledge to help you get the most out of an SLO-based approach, you’ll learn how to build systems capable of measuring meaningful SLIs with buy-in across all departments of your organization. Define SLIs that meaningfully measure the reliability of a service from a user’s perspective Choose appropriate SLO targets, including how to perform statistical and probabilistic analysis Use error budgets to help your team have better discussions and make better data-driven decisions Build supportive tooling and resources required for an SLO-based approach Use SLO data to present meaningful reports to leadership and your users

Download or read book IBM MobileFirst in Action for mGovernment and Citizen Mobile Services written by Tien Nguyen and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobile technology is changing the way government interacts with the public anytime and anywhere. mGovernment is the evolution of eGovernment. Like the evolution of web applications, mobile applications require a process transformation, and not by simply creating wrappers to mobile-enable existing web applications. This IBM® RedpaperTM publication explains what the key focus areas are for implementing a successful mobile government, how to address these focus areas with capabilities from IBM MobileFirstTM enterprise software, and what guidance and preferred practices to offer the IT practitioner in the public sector. This paper explains the key focus areas specific to governments and public sector clients worldwide in terms of enterprise mobility and describes the typical reference architecture for the adoption and implementation of mobile government solutions. This paper provides practical examples through typical use cases and usage scenarios for using the capabilities of the IBM MobileFirst products in the overall solution and provides guidance, preferred practices, and lessons learned to IT consultants and architects working in public sector engagements. The intended audience of this paper includes the following individuals: Client decision makers and solution architects leading mobile enterprise adoption projects in the public sector A wide range of IBM services and sales professionals who are involved in selling IBM software and designing public sector client solutions that include the IBM MobileFirst product suite Solution architects, consultants, and IBM Business Partners responsible for designing and deploying solutions that include the integration of the IBM MobileFirst product suite