Title: Mobile development environments for electronic finance

Authors: Chen Lingfen, Derek Woods, Kevin Curran, Jonathan Doherty

Addresses: Faculty of Computing and Engineering, School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, BT48 7JL, UK. ' Faculty of Computing and Engineering, School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, BT48 7JL, UK. ' Faculty of Computing and Engineering, School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, BT48 7JL, UK. ' Faculty of Computing and Engineering, School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, BT48 7JL, UK

Abstract: Recent trends in e-finance have shown that mobile technology is growing and with this comes new opportunities for deploying new services for customers. Development of systems on mobile devices can require a lot more resources in the form of development time. There is a lack of documentation as to the merits of leading development environments for mobile platforms. The objective here is to compare the implementation process of developing on each mobile device. We set about investigating the various properties through building an e-finance application on each platform and we offer recommendations for e-finance mobile developers as to which is most suitable.

Keywords: mobile platforms; software development platforms; enterprise application development; e-finance; pervasive computing; electronic finance; mobile communications; mobile phones; cell phones; windows mobile; JAVA ME; Android.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEF.2010.033301

International Journal of Electronic Finance, 2010 Vol.4 No.2, pp.99 - 119

Published online: 21 May 2010 *

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