| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 軟體工程研究所 === 99 === The usage of mobile devices to access various services becomes more and more popular in our daily life. However, mobile devices have their essential limitations such as smaller screen sizes than desktop ones in order to carry with ease. Without any tailoring to represent Web content on mobile devices, mobile device users have to scroll Web pages or click links in a tedious manner to view complete content of websites that are originally designed for desktop users. Besides, mobile devices have limited network bandwidth to retrieve remote Web content. If the whole Web content dedicated to the display on general browsers is transmitted to mobile devices, it will cause an unpredicted delay when showing the content on mobile devices. Due to these limitations, users usually are not willing to use browsers of mobile devices to view Web content. In order to solve the problems, this thesis first collects several useful guidelines from literature to design friendly user interfaces for mobile devices. Then, we also devise rules to transform original Web content into the ones that are customized for various mobile device platforms. Currently two kinds of transformations are proposed: 1) transcoding websites into Android components for Android-based mobile devices; 2) transcoding websites into web pages for general mobile devices. Finally, a news application on mobile devices is developed to demonstrate our design guidelines and transformation approaches.
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