Digitalization is happening all around us as more tasks get software assistance, to ease the workload and improve performance. This opens up for endless possibilities but it also comes with challenges. The progress made within software development means that the first solutions implemented can differ a lot compared to the latest for a company. This spread makes maintenance significantly harder due to having different implementations or even different operating systems. Cross platform compatibility is a technique that battles this spread by allowing for a single implementation to be used in all environments, enabling maintenance to be focused solely on one product. The transitioning towards cross platform applications is easy when there is no external hardware involved. However when there is external hardware the transitioning needs to take limitations regarding hardware compatibility into consideration, which has been the case for this project. In the thesis, a proof of concept has been developed for migration from native Android towards React Native which allows for a cross platform compatible application. External hardware in the form of a card reader, receipt printer and touch screen are included to analyze the possibility to migrate without having to replace the current hardware due to limitations regarding hardware accessibility and performance. This work shows that it would be possible to transition from a native Android application with external hardware to a React Native application if an additional backend environment is implemented alongside. The backend is for validation and token generation towards third party programs connected to the hardware. This proof of concept shows that the performance loss is within an acceptable boundary which only marginally affects user experience.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-453803 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Gådin, Erik |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | UPTEC IT, 1401-5749 ; 21036 |
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