Behavioral extensibility for mobile applications

摘要

In example embodiments, systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable media for creating and/or executing extensible mobile applications are provided. Extensibility of a mobile application deployed on a device is achieved with configuration files that can be provided to the device at a time after initial deployment of the application. Mobile application framework components combined with the code of the application enable extracting Java scripts from the configuration files, and executing the Java scripts to thereby alter the behavior of the application.

主权项

1. A method of creating an extensible application, the method comprising:
on a computer, defining code and one or more configuration files for the extensible application, the code and the one or more configuration files collectively defining a behavior of the extensible application, the code including calls to one or more of a plurality of generic components of a mobile application framework; using the computer, combining the code and the one or more configuration files with the plurality of generic components of the mobile application framework into a deployable unit, the generic components collectively being configured to, when executed by a processor, extract Java scripts from the one or more configuration files and cause their execution by a Javascript execution engine; causing the deployable unit to be distributed from the computer to one or more devices; altering the one or more configuration files, the altered one or more configuration files comprising at least one Java script configured to alter a behavior of the extensible application; and causing the altered one or more configuration files to be distributed to the one or more devices separately from the deployable unit.