Streaming computing technology for android applications: Design model and case study

Abstract

Android is a mobile operating system released by Google on 2007, which has got strong support from major mobile phone manufacturers and became one of the most popular mobile operating systems quickly. However, the applications which increase explosively occupy a large amount of storage resources and make serious limitation on device’s resources. Moreover, the frequent updating operation of the applications damages the user experience. We propose a new kind of mobile application model named Streaming Application Model based on the concept of Transparent Computing. By modularizing the ordinary application into some independent components and the devices load and launch the components dynamically, we can reduce the consumption of hardware resources and keep the users away from the complex and frequent application update processes, thus improving the user experience of Android devices.