Intense competition in the mobile apps market means it is important to maintain high levels
of app reliability to avoid losing users. Yet despite its importance, app reliability is …

To ensure low-latency memory allocation, mobile operating systems kill applications instead
of swapping memory to disk. This design choice shifts the burden of managing over-utilized …

Android apps are event-driven, and their execution is often interrupted by external events.
This interruption can cause data loss issues that annoy users. For instance, when the screen …

Mobile applications exhibit unique file access patterns, often involving random accesses of
write-mostly files and read-only files. The high write stress of mobile applications …

Android system has been widely deployed in energy-constrained IoT devices for many
practical applications, such as smart phone, smart home, healthcare, fitness, and beacons …

Hundreds of thousands of mobile app users post their reviews online. Responding to user
reviews promptly and satisfactorily improves application ratings, which is key to application …

Mobile operating systems, especially Android, expose apps to a volatile runtime
environment. The app state that reflects past user interaction and system environment …

Data loss issues in Android apps triggered by activity restart or app relaunch significantly
reduce the user experience and undermine the app quality. While data loss detection has …

Android platform is evolving rapidly. Therefore, evolution and maintenance of Android apps
are major concerns among developers. One of the essential components of each app is an …

Despite continuous efforts to build and update mobile network infrastructure, mobile devices
in developing regions continue to be constrained by limited bandwidth. Unfortunately, this …