Applikationsutveckling med nätverkstrafikfunktioner : En jämförelse av tre mobilplattformar avseende nätverkstrafikfunktioner

Sammanfattning: The objective of this study was to examine three common mobile phoneplatforms in relation to their network traffic features. The platforms to beexamined are Android, iOS 5 and Windows Phone. After the investigation wascompleted a prototype application was implemented in order to demonstratethese features in the most suitable platform. The application will function as atelephone call exchanger. In addition, the application must also send the userstatistic to a Web server, accept contacts from a Web server, as well as having aspecial administration part in which the userstatistc can be presented. In thestudy the current mobile platforms and their respective APIs have beenexamined and compared and the facts compiled. These techniques were thenapplied to create a prototype application based on the mobile platform Android.Android was chosen because it is the mobile platform that supports the majorityof the required functions. The tools that were used are Eclipse IDE, AndroidSDK, a Jersey RESTful Services, MySQL database and a SQLite database. Theapplication was tested by means of measurements on the application'scommunication features. An expert test was also conducted in order to evaluatethe application as to whether or not it met its goals. The investigation has shownthat Android is the mobile platform that supports the majority of the requirednetwork traffic features. The measurements on the application have shown thatthe speed of execution of a communication function mainly depend on thenetwork connection. The expert test has shown that the application does meetsthe set requirements and, in addition, comments are added in relation to thoseparts for which improvements can be made.