HIGH PERFORMANT IOS TEMPLATE BASED APPLICATION BUILD SYSTEM

• US 20160092179A1
• Filed: 09/25/2015
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Straub, Christian David
• Granted Patent: US 9,851,968 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management

Abstract

Systems and methods are provide for optimizing the iOS application build process to dramatically reduce build times for highly templated mobile applications. A request to build a first application developed using an application development framework can cause one or more binary artifacts of a second application compiled using a build toolkit to be determined. Declarative information associated with the one or more binary artifacts of the second application can be then modified using metadata associated with the first application. The metadata configures one or more components included in the first application. The first application can then be built to target a mobile device using the one or more binary artifacts of the second application and the modified declarative information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a computer, a request to build a first application developed using an application development framework;

determining, by the computer, one or more binary artifacts of a second application compiled using a build toolkit;

modifying, by the computer, declarative information associated with the one or more binary artifacts of the second application using metadata associated with the first application, the metadata configuring one or more components included in the first application; and

building, by the computer, the first application to target a mobile device using the one or more binary artifacts of the second application and the modified declarative information.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving, at the computer, the request to build the first application comprises receiving a request to package the application for an operating system of the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein determining, by the computer, the one or more binary artifacts of the second application compiled using the build toolkit comprises identifying at least one portion of the second application having declarative information that matches declarative information associated with at least one portion of the first application.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein modifying, by the computer, the declarative information associated with the one or more binary artifacts of the second application using the metadata associated with the first application comprises modifying a reference to the declarative information to include a reference to declarative information associated with one or more portions of the first application.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein modifying, by the computer, the declarative information associated with the one or more binary artifacts of the second application using the metadata associated with the first application comprises replacing a first set of definition files associated with the second application with a second set of definition files associated with the first application.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein building, by the computer, the first application to target the mobile device comprises packaging one or more binary artifacts representing the first application for the IOS operating system.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein building, by the computer, the first application to target the mobile device comprises packaging one or more binary artifacts representing the first application for the Android operating system.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising compiling the second application to generate the one or more binary artifacts and a set of definition files that include the declarative information.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program product which when executed by a processor of the computer system cause the processor to implement the method of claim 1.

10. A system comprising:

a hardware processor; and

a memory storing a set of instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to;

receive a request to build a first application developed using an application development framework;

determine one or more binary artifacts of a second application compiled using a build toolkit;

modify declarative information associated with the one or more binary artifacts of the second application using metadata associated with the first application, the metadata configuring one or more components included in the first application; and

build the first application to target a mobile device using the one or more binary artifacts of the second application and the modified declarative information.