Design and implementation of an automated mobile applications generator for remote database access

Using mobile applications to retrieve and manage data from remote servers is an essential service today. For this reason developers are continuously required to implement applications that perform this task. In this paper an automated mobile applications generator called GAAMov is presented. GAAMov is intended to ease developers' work by generating mobile applications that require accessing a remote database. It provides a very friendly user interface and builds both, the client and server sides. For the client-side it generates Java ME applications. The remote databases are managed using PHP and MySQL. Once information is retrieved, data is converted to an appropriate format in order to store it persistently on the mobile device using the Record Management System (RMS).