A method of refactoring Android applications for smart watches

• US 20180285100A1
• Filed: 09/07/2016
• Published: 10/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Peking University
• Original Assignee: Peking University
• Inventors: Huang, Gang, Liu, Xuanzhe, Yu, Meihua, Ma, Yun, Liu, Yi, Xu, Mengwei
• Application Number:
  US15/746,439
• Publication Number:
  US 20180285100A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/72 Code refactoring

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method of refactoring Android applications for smart watches. The present method includes: 1) for a given Android application, creating an empty folder Mobile, migrating source codes of the Android application to the Mobile folder, and generating a Wear module in a root of the Android application; 2) adding codes to support smart watch features in the Wear module, and adding a watch-specific dependency library; copying the source codes of the Android application to the Wear module; 3) replaced API in the Wear module with API for watch applications; and 4) reducing page layout of the Android application by a reduction ratio corresponding to size ratio of a smart phone to a smart watch; identifying all view components on a page of the Android application, reducing down to a dimension of each of the view components to fit a screen width of the smart watch, and sorting the view components based on priorities. The disclosed method reduces the development and maintenance costs for smart watch applications.

Claims

1. A method of refactoring Android applications for smart watches, comprising:

1) for a given Android application, creating an empty folder Mobile, migrating source codes of the Android application to the Mobile folder, and automatically generating a Wear module in a root of the Android application;

2) adding codes to support smart watch features in the Wear module, and adding a watch-specific dependency library; and

copying the source codes of the Android application to the Wear module;

3) replacing API in source codes of the Android application copied into the Wear module by an API suitable for Android Wear for smart watches; and

4) reducing page layout of the Android application by a reduction ratio corresponding to size ratio of a smart phone to a smart watch;

identifying all view components on a page of the Android application, reducing down to a dimension of each of the view components to fit a screen width of the smart watch, and sorting the view components based on priorities.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in step 2) if the source codes of the Android application copied into the Wear module include an API that cannot be replaced by an API suitable for Android Wear for smart watches, step 2) further comprises:

calling a corresponding API in the Mobile folder; and

replacing the API in the Wear module by using returned value of the corresponding API.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein after the step of sorting, the view components are displayed in a list format or in a stack of cards.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

supporting, with an Android Studio plug-in, manual adjustments to parameter values of the page layout and to the page layout in Android application in a WYSIWYG manner.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the view components are sorted by priority based on content relevance.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the Mobile folder is created by opening the Android application using Android Studio tool.