Extending App Installable Memory in Android Smartphones

Abstract

The increasing need of app installations on mobile devices demands a lot of internal memory i.e., app installable mem- ory. The limited size of the internal memory puts restric- tions 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 solu- tion 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 in- stallable 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.