Low-Code Flutter Application Development Solution
Auteurs
Nirumand A., Alfonso I., Cabot J.
Référence
Proceedings: MODELS 2024 - ACM/IEEE 27th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings, pp. 838-847, 2024
Description
Mobile applications have become an integral part of our lives, mostly by improving the efficiency of our daily tasks. Although the Graphical User Interface (GUI) is essential for the ease and efficient use of these applications, developing them well can be a complex task. The manual coding of GUIs can be time-consuming and pose obstacles to the development of essential business features. To address this challenge, we propose a low-code solution to support the development of mobile applications including the GUI. We have extended BESSER, an open-source low-code platform, to provide a sublanguage for modeling GUIs. Aditionally, we have developed a code generator for mobile Flutter applications. The resultant code adheres to Flutter best development practices, ensuring the development of high-quality applications. The complete infrastructure, including the code generator and associated resources, is accessible in an open-source repository.
