A cross-platform context-aware application developing framework for mobile terminals

The increasing number of mobile terminals facilitates the development of context-aware applications. However, developing a context aware application is still a complex work, which involves mechanisms of context acquisition and context processing. In order to release the developer's burden, many context aware frameworks emerged. But none of them yet has sufficient consideration of mobile environment characteristics. Besides, restricted to the mobile platform, the developed application could not achieve cross-platform deployment. A cross-platform context-aware application developing framework for mobile terminals is proposed in this paper. This framework could shield system differences, centralize context acquisition, context modeling, context storing, context interpretation and context aggregation for many context aware applications on the same terminal. Applying the framework, data of same sensor would not be duplicated processed by many context aware applications. Context aware application would be built faster. And mobile terminal resources would be used more efficiently.