ADAPTATION OF A WEB APPLICATION FOR USE BY A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20160041823A1
• Filed: 08/06/2014
• Published: 02/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gordon, Itai, Magdalen, Josemina Marcella, Paikowsky, Oren, Ben-Yair, Yoav, Fuchs, Gil, Madar, Amitai
• Granted Patent: US 11,099,839 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/72 Code refactoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/76 Adapting program code to run in a different environment; Porting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

Client side code of a web application can be received by a mobile device. The mobile device can automatically inject mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application. The mobile aware code can modify the client side code of the web application for use by the mobile device, wherein the client side code of the web application is not modified for use by the mobile device prior to the mobile aware code being injected. The client side code of the web application modified by the mobile aware code can be executed by the mobile device.

Claims

1-7. -7. (canceled)

8. A mobile device, comprising:

a processor programmed to initiate executable operations comprising;

receiving client side code of a web application;

automatically injecting mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application, the mobile aware code modifying the client side code of the web application for use by the mobile device, wherein the client side code of the web application is not modified for use by the mobile device prior to the mobile aware code being injected; and

executing the client side code of the web application modified by the mobile aware code.

9. The mobile device of claim 8, wherein automatically injecting the mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises overriding with at least one portion of the mobile aware code at least one portion of the client side code of the web application.

10. The mobile device of claim 8, wherein automatically injecting the mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises configuring the client side code to load at least a first library optimized for use by the mobile device in lieu of a second library that is not optimized for use by the mobile device.

11. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein configuring the client side code to load at least the first library optimized for use by the mobile device in lieu of the second library that is not optimized for use by the mobile device comprises adding at least one statement to a window document object model (DOM) object of the client side code of the web application, the at least one statement configured to load the first library optimized for the mobile device.

12. The mobile device of claim 8, wherein automatically injecting mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises injecting the mobile aware code into the client side code prior to an entry point for the web application finishing loading on the mobile device.

13. The mobile device of claim 8, the executable operations further comprising:

querying a server hosting the web application inquiring whether the web application has been revised;

responsive to receiving a response from the server indicating that the web application has been revised, accessing a file containing information on revisions to the web application; and

revising the mobile aware code according to the file containing information on revisions to the web application;

wherein automatically injecting the mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises injecting the mobile aware code revised according to the file containing information on revisions to the web application.

14. The mobile device of claim 13, wherein automatically injecting the mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises injecting the mobile aware code revised according to the file containing the information on the updates.

15. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code stored thereon, the program code executable by a processor of a mobile device to perform a method comprising:

receiving, by the processor of the mobile device, client side code of a web application;

automatically injecting, by the processor of the mobile device, mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application, the mobile aware code modifying the client side code of the web application for use by the mobile device, wherein the client side code of the web application is not modified for use by the mobile device prior to the mobile aware code being injected; and

executing, by the processor of the mobile device, the client side code of the web application modified by the mobile aware code.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein automatically injecting, by the processor of the mobile device, the mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises overriding with at least one portion of the mobile aware code at least one portion of the client side code of the web application.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein automatically injecting, by the processor of the mobile device, the mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises configuring the client side code to load at least a first library optimized for use by the mobile device in lieu of a second library that is not optimized for use by the mobile device.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein configuring the client side code to load at least the first library optimized for use by the mobile device in lieu of the second library that is not optimized for use by the mobile device comprises adding at least one statement to a window document object model (DOM) object of the client side code of the web application, the at least one statement configured to load the first library optimized for the mobile device.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein automatically injecting, by the processor of the mobile device, mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises injecting the mobile aware code into the client side code prior to an entry point for the web application finishing loading on the mobile device.

20. The computer program product of claim 15, the method further comprising:

querying, by the processor of the mobile device, a server hosting the web application inquiring whether the web application has been revised;

responsive to receiving a response from the server indicating that the web application has been revised, accessing, by the processor of the mobile device, a file containing information on revisions to the web application; and

revising, by the processor of the mobile device, the mobile aware code according to the file containing information on revisions to the web application;

wherein automatically injecting, by the processor of the mobile device, the mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises injecting the mobile aware code revised according to the file containing information on revisions to the web application.

21. The computer program product of claim 20, wherein automatically injecting, by the processor of the mobile device, the mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises injecting the mobile aware code revised according to the file containing the information on the updates.