Creative Commons

Nowadays, due to the rapid growth of the technology, more and more applications are being developed, every day, not only for desktops but also for mobiles (smartphones), which are the state - of - the - art platforms, used by common people in a daily base. To be more precise, we can find a huge amount of new mobile applications published every day in the certified stores (Google Play Store, Apple App Store, Windows Store). Individual developers or those who are working for companies, need to spend much valuable time, trying to breakdown the requirements, adapt design s, manage the project structure, and finally start developing a new desktop or mobile application. This time could be reduced by reusing either main fundamental components or more specific ones from other applications developed by the same or other developers , based on the same programming language , and also based on the same structure architecture and patterns . Having said that mobile platforms are the most popular in the general public, we have chosen to work around this area. In this thesis, we have analysed the value and the impact of code reuse in Greenfield application development, targeting the mobile sector. Having selected a specific application sub - domain, we have identified applications and analysed them so as to extract candidate reusable artefacts , through the Percerons Tool. The candidates for reuse have been stored in a repository, which has then been exploited to identify components that can be used for mobile applications development.