A study on graphic user interface (GUI) of cross-platform operating system for mobile phone
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Software developers reduce the time of development by using the cross platform mobile app. However, the Graphic User Interface (GUI) designed by using the cross-platform app was nearly the same for both Android and iOS platform. This inspires the study of how users can use the GUI across the platform. The objective of the study is to investigate how users develop their mental models to use the cross-platform app. This study covers three experiments. The first experiment is on the navigation menu for a lot of data such as Navigation drawer bar in Android and Table in iOS. Second investigation is the navigation for small amount of data such as Tab bar in iOS comparing with Navigation drawer bar on Android. The last experiment is the GUI that was designed different look and feel, for example, the Android calendar comparing with Date picker in iOS. The result shows that there is no significant difference of effectiveness between Navigation drawer bar and Table in the first test. For the second test, subjects preferred the Tab bar over the Navigation drawer bar when searching small amount of data. For the last experiment, there is no significant difference between Android Calendar and iOS date picker. Subject experienced those GUI from other apps. This study suggests the GUI of cross-platform can be used for further development.
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