TECHNIQUES FOR SOLVING OF ANDROID FRAGMENTATION PROBLEM

Abstract

In this paper, the development of Android applications, as well as all the dominant forms of fragmentation that can occur during application development have been analyzed. The paper gives a general view of the problem of fragmentation and basic definition and divisions of fragmentation, analysis of the types of fragmentation of the Android platform, and techniques for problem solving. There are described types of fragmentation that are the most featured, fragmentation of the operating system and hardware fragmentation, and than analyzed basic defragmentation mechanisms. Finally, it is presented analyzer that practically demonstrates whether the described techniques, based on the available data, are applied in some of the most popular open source Android applications, and then it is performed statistical analysis of applications that shows the market percentage loss due to the fragmentation.