Abstract: A development environment and/or method for generating a user interface for a plurality of computing devices. The development environment and/or method may include a user interface modeling process for configuring information representing display capabilities of computing devices. The display capabilities may include a desired screen size parameter. As a function of the information configured, indicators are displayed or implemented to represent the respective screen size parameters of the computing devices. The development environment and/or method may also include an application generation process for comparing the information of the display capabilities of the computing devices with the information indicating placement location of a user interface component. If the information indicating placement location of the user interface component complies with a display capability, then the user interface component is stored in a database.

Abstract: A system for generating software applications for a plurality of heterogeneous computing devices. Each computing device has different capabilities. The system outputs device-specific versions of a software application each tailored to the capabilities of the associated computing device in response to receiving device-independent modeling information characterizing the software application. The system includes a framework, a plurality of object types, a modeling tool, and a plurality of device-specific code generators. The framework defines common services on the computing devices. Each object type has a functional relationship to the common services provided by the framework. The modeling tool defines instances of the plurality of object types based on modeling information received as input, outputting a metadata structure describing the behavior and functionality of a software application.