Design and Implementation of Streaming Application Execution Platform in Android

Abstract

Because of benefit from the strategy of open source and the strong ability of innovation, Android has become one of the most popular operating systems on mobile platform. While the explosive increase of mobile applications has leaded to several shortages in Android system, such as the limitations in hardware resources, complex and frequent updating of the applications. In this paper, we propose a new kind of mobile application model named Streaming Application Model by absorbing the concept of Transparent Computing. The applications are modularized into some independent components and stored on server. The android devices load and launch the components dynamically. Streaming Application Model can reduce the consumption of hardware resources and take away the complex and frequent application update processes for users, thus improving the user experience in Android devices.