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PATTERNS 2013 : The FIfth International Conferences on Pervasive Patterns and Applications Android Passive MVC: a Novel Architecture Model for Android Application Development Karina Sokolova⇤†, Marc Lemercier⇤ Ludovic Garcia† ⇤University of Technology of Troyes, France †EUTECH SSII, France {karina.sokolova, marc.lemercier}@utt.fr {k.sokolova, l.garcia}@ Abstract—Nowadays the demand for mobile application de- The iOS SDK imposes the Model-View-Controller (MVC) velopment is very high. To be competitive, a mobile application design pattern for the iOS application development [2]. An- should be cost-effective and be of good quality. The architecture droid requires no particular architecture [3] – developers choice is important to ensure the quality of the application over choose a suitable architecture for their applications that is time and to reduce development time. Two main leaders are especially difficult for less experienced developers. Complex very represented on the mobile market: Apple (iOS) and Google applications that do not follow any architecture can end as a (Android). The iOS development is based on the Model-View- Controller design pattern and is well structured. The Android big ball of mud code: incomprehensible and unmaintainable system does not require any model: the architecture choice [4]. Suitable architecture can improve three non-functional and the application quality highly depends on the developer requirements of software structural quality: extensibility, main- experience. Heterogen