Abstract:
Using a smart phone, which has a small screen, for browsing an online store is not an
enjoyable experience. Using a device with a very small screen size is not appropriate
since the web shop’s functionalities are not optimized to be accessed from these devices.
The solution was to develop both a server side plugin and a client side application. The
application which was designed for a mobile device should have used a generic
communication in order to connect to the plugin. The plugin was an online store's plugin
letting the mobile application do the online shopping experience from a mobile device
without using the web browser, which would obviously increase the device performance
in browsing a web shop.The result was that the implemented plugin and the application
worked for all of the E-commerce frameworks’ instances, so instead of developing a
server side plugin and a client side application for one single web shop, a variety of web
shops have been supported with a single plugin and an application.
