Generating and publishing applications for multiple platforms

• US 9,645,814 B1
• Filed: 05/04/2015
• Issued: 05/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Roque, Miguel Azancot, Bhattacharya, Arindam, Choudhary, Mihir Kumar, Alston, Samuel Jared, Gorwara, Harmeet Singh
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Andy
• Application Number:
  US14/702,927
• Time in Patent Office: 736 Days
• Field of Search: 717106, 717120, 717121, 717140
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/4443 Inlining
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management

Abstract

Technologies are disclosed for generating and publishing multi-platform application binaries from hosted websites or website source code. A developer can provide source code for a website or a link to a hosted website and identify target platforms for which application binaries should be created. The website is then modified for optimized presentation on devices on the specified target platforms. For example, page layouts, menu styles, image resolutions, and other aspects of the website can be modified for presentation on a mobile device, a tablet, a set top box, or other type of device. Source code is then generated for the target platforms that includes a web view component for rendering the website. A cross-platform compilation service then compiles the source code to generate native applications for the target platforms. The generated applications can then be provided to the developer or automatically submitted to application stores associated with the target platforms.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereupon which are executable by the one or more processors and which, when executed, cause the system to;

receive first website data,

receive an indication of a target platform;

generate, from the first web site data, second web site data for presentation on computing devices configured according to the target platform,

determine a first web view component configured to fetch and render the second website data in the target platform;

compile the second website data to create platform specific application binary for the target platform, the platform specific application binary configured to render the second website data when executed on devices configured according to the target platform, the platform specific application binary for the target platform including the first web view component; and

send the platform specific application binary to application stores associated with the first target platform.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the second website data is generated by one or more of modifying one or more page layouts of the first website data, modifying one or more menu styles of the first website data, or modifying a resolution of one or more images of the first web site data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium has further instructions stored thereupon to generate metadata for the platform specific application binary from the first website data.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the platform specific application binary is configured to access one or more cross platform services.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the platform specific application binary is configured to utilize one or more platform specific features of devices configured according to the target platform.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the compiling is performed by a cross-platform compilation service executing in a service provider network.

7. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

generate first website data, for presentation on devices configured according to a target platform, based at least in part on second website data;

determine a web view component configured to fetch and render the first website data in the target platform; and

compile the first website data to create platform specific application binary for the target platform, the platform specific application binary for the target platform including the web view component.

8. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein generating the first website data comprises one or more of:

modifying one or more page layouts of the second website data;

modifying one or more styles of the second website data;

or

modifying a resolution of one or more images of the second web site data.

9. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, having further computer-executable instructions stored thereupon to publish the platform specific application binary on application stores associated with the target platform.

10. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, having further computer-executable instructions stored thereupon to generate metadata for the platform specific application binary from the first website data.

11. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the platform specific application binary is configured to access one or more cross platform services.

12. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the cross platform services comprise one or more of an in-application purchasing service, an analytics service, an advertising service, or a testing service.

13. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the platform specific application binary is configured to utilize one or more platform specific features of the devices configured according to the target platform.

14. A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating, from first website data, first modified website data for presentation on devices configured according to a first target platform;

generating, from the first web site data, second modified web site data for presentation on devices configured according to a second target platform;

determining a first web view component configured to fetch and render the first modified website data in the first target platform;

determining a second web view component configured to fetch and render the second modified website data in the second target platform;

compiling the first modified web site data to create first platform specific application binary for the first target platform; and

compiling the second modified web site data to create second platform specific application binary for the second target platform, the first platform specific application binary configured to render the first modified website data when executed on the devices configured according to the first target platform, the second platform specific application binary configured to render the second modified website data when executed on the devices configured according to the second target platform, the first platform specific application binary including the first web view component, and the second platform specific application binary including the second web view component.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising publishing the first and second platform specific application binaries on application stores associated with the plurality of target platforms.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein generating the first modified website data comprises one or more of:

modifying one or more page layouts of the first web site data;

modifying one or more styles of the first website data;

or

modifying a resolution of one or more images of the first web site data.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising generating metadata for the first and second platform specific application binaries respectively from the first and second modified website data.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein the first and second platform specific application binaries are configured to access one or more cross platform services.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 18, wherein the cross platform services comprise one or more of an in-application purchasing service, an analytics service, an advertising service, or a testing service.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, wherein the first and second platform specific application binaries are configured to utilize one or more platform specific features of the devices configured according to the target platforms.