MobiTran: tool support for refactoring PC websites to smart phones

Authors:
Yun Ma;Yimeng Fang;Xiaomin Zhu;Xuanzhe Liu;Gang Huang
Affiliations:
Peking University, Beijing, China;Peking University, Beijing, China;Peking University, Beijing, China;Peking University, Beijing, China;Peking University, Beijing, China
Venue:
Proceedings Demo & Poster Track of ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper presents MobiTran, an online developer tool for refactoring regular PC websites to adapt smart phones. MobiTran only requires the URL address of original websites as inputs, and takes three steps to semi-automatically generate a smart phone specific version. A novel algorithm is devised to split original webpage into a set of pieces according to screen size estate, while preserving most CSS and JavaScript behaviors. Then, developers are assisted to manually adjust the semi-finished web applications, like layout and styling templates, on-demand page fetching, navigation, touch behaviors, integration with local features and apps, and so on. Finally, developers can pack the generated application versions and deploy onto their web server, or make them to native apps. We believe our versatile approach can help website providers to fast migrate their applications to mobile environment.