A Dynamic Reconfiguration Method of Android Platform
Byung-Sung Park, Yong-Duck You, Hoon Young Choi · Jeongbo gwahaghoe nonmunji. si'seu'tem mich i'lon · 2011
An application which runs on Android mobile platform using some external libraries contains these libraries inside of the application as a part of code. Therefore waste of storage space is caused if multiple applications that use the same external libraries exist in a mobile device, because the same library codes are included in each application. Then, a mechanism is needed so as to add the external libraries as shared libraries on a mobile platform. It is troublesome to create and replace the platform image by an offline service, after adding a library. Therefore a dynamic reconfiguration method which adds required libraries on-demand without regenerate the platform image is required. In this paper, a dynamic reconfiguration method for Android mobile platform is proposed. The proposed method resolves a possible security concern that vendors of commercial Android mobile devices may have.