appification

The conversion of traditional programs, websites, etc. into small, self-contained apps targeting mobile devices.

Noun

  1. The conversion of traditional programs, websites, etc. into small, self-contained apps targeting mobile devices.
    • While appification makes the former Web-based tools and apps more accessible, and improves users' quality of life, […] - 2015, Barbara Guzzetti, Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media, page 417:
    • Our focus is on investigating the architecture-level decisions that are specific to the appification process. - 2015, Danny Weyns, Raffaela Mirandola, Ivica Crnkovic, Software Architecture: 9th European Conference, ECSA...
    • Tubi TV exemplifies an app's effort to step into this long, complicated global evolution of mobile television (Goggin 2012), and as such, it is emblematic of why the appification of television […] - 2018, Jeremy W....

Origin

From app + -ification.