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Extending app installable memory in Android smartphones

Published: 14 May 2016 Publication History

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The increasing need of app installations on mobile devices demands a lot of internal memory i.e., app installable memory. The limited size of the internal memory puts restrictions on the number of applications that one can install on a mobile device at any given instance of a time. The research work in this paper focuses on providing a cloud based solution to the limited app installable memory to allow the users to have more number of applications on their smart phone. The proposed solution uses a cloud to extend the app installable memory of user's mobile. The unused or less used apps are moved over to cloud storage until they are required by the user thereby making internal memory available for new installations. The moved apps maintains user data and avoid permanent deletion of apps.

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MOBILESoft '16: Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems
May 2016
326 pages
ISBN:9781450341783
DOI:10.1145/2897073
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  2. extending internal memory
  3. mobile app
  4. mobile internal memory

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