A preliminary study in improvising instant mobile messaging framework using cloud storage service

Abstract

Nowadays, Instant Mobile Messaging (IMM) applications such as WhatsApp, Line and WeChat, are widely used. Studies conducted in this area found that cost is the main reason why people would rather use the IMM compared to Short Message Service (SMS). However, in WhatsApp, photos send through the IMM will be located in local storage and eventually the local storage will run out of space. In this research our objective is to come out with a new framework of IMM application. It also introduces a way on how to save documents that sent via this application. The framework will benefit from the use of cloud storage service to store the new files created. In order to send files to the recipients, they need to be accessed via the cloud storage. Once sent, the files will be stored in the recipients' cloud storage. There will be an interface that allows communication between smart phone and cloud storage. As a result, the smart phone space will be saved and this new improvised framework is expected to be the basis of reference for optimizing the smart phone resource overhead.