TY - JFULL AU - Nathar Shah and Bu Kiat Seng PY - 2013/5/ TI - Empirical Evaluation of Performance Optimization Techniques Used in Mobile Applications T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 526 EP - 534 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9997045 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 76, 2013 N2 - Mobile application development is different from regular application development due to the hardware resource limitations existed in the mobile platforms. In the mobile environment, the application needs to be optimized by the developer to produce optimal software with least overhead. This study discussed about performance optimization techniques that are employed in general application development, and how such techniques are performing on mobile platforms through some empirical evaluations on a mobile emulator, Nokia X3-02 and Nokia C5-03devices. The scope of the work is only confined to mobile platform based on Java Mobile edition architecture. The empirical results showed that techniques such as loop unrolling, dependency chain, and linearized getter and setter performed better by a factor of 3 to 7. Whereas declaration and initialization on the same line or separate line did not improve the performance. ER -