Ulmo: A System to Enable Mobile Applications Personalization by Binary SMS

Abstract

Usability and user interfaces play a huge and important role in today’s mobile application. Besides a good design, acceptable performance, scalability, and robustness, a mobile application needs to be easy to use and, to some extent, customizable. To create a system able to custom the mobile application’s user interface and mirror it immediately to final users is the purpose of this article. Ulmo is such system, which is composed by a web site that enables user to comfortably executes change in mobile application user interface, a mobile application compliant (providing API that facilitates mobile application Ulmo compliance development) and the communication module to mirror web adjustments in mobile phone, which was made using SMS technology. Its availability and low cost are also considered and its high penetration in emergent markets. Some aspects as security, data compression, and reliability are taken in account.