Adroitness: An Android-based Middleware for Fast Development of High-performance Apps

TL;DR

Adroitness is a middleware framework for Android that simplifies the development of high-performance, interactive mobile apps by abstracting complex architectural concerns and sensor management, leading to faster development and better responsiveness.

Contribution

It introduces a middleware architecture that abstracts low-level details, easing app development and improving performance compared to traditional Android frameworks.

Findings

Reduced development time for complex apps

Improved app responsiveness and performance

Simplified sensor and resource management

Abstract

As smartphones become increasingly more powerful, a new generation of highly interactive user-centric mobile apps emerge to make user's life simpler and more productive. Mobile phones applications have to sustain limited resource availability on mobile devices such as battery life, network connectivity while also providing better responsiveness, lightweight interactions within the application. Developers end up spending a considerable amount of time dealing with the architecture constraints imposed by the wide variety of platforms, tools, and devices offered by the mobile ecosystem, thereby diverting them from their main goal of building such apps. Therefore, we propose a mobile-based middleware architecture that alleviates the burdensome task of dealing with low-level architectural decisions and fine-grained implementation details. We achieve such a goal by focusing on the separation of concerns and abstracting away the complexity of orchestrating device sensors and effectors, decision-making processes, and connection to remote services, while providing scaffolding for the development of higher-level functional features of interactive high-performance mobile apps. We demonstrate the powerfulness of our approach vs. Android's conventional framework by comparing different software metric