CAreDroid: Adaptation Framework for Android Context-Aware Applications

Context-awareness is the ability of software systems to sense and adapt to their physical environment. Many contemporary mobile applications adapt to changing locations, connectivity states, available computational and energy resources, and proximity to other users and devices. Nevertheless, there is little systematic support for context-awareness in contemporary mobile operating systems. Because of this, application developers must build their own context-awareness adaptation engines, dealing directly with sensors and polluting application code with complex adaptation decisions. In this paper, we introduce CAreDroid, which is a framework that is designed to decouple the application logic from the complex adaptation decisions in Android context-aware applications. In this framework, developers are required— only—to focus on the application logic by providing a list of methods that are sensitive to certain contexts along with the permissible operating ranges under those contexts. A...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: MOBICOM
• Authors: Salma Elmalaki, Lucas Francisco Wanner, Mani B. Srivastava
• Keywords: Communications, MOBICOM 2015