System and Method for Fast Restarting of User Apps

摘要

A system and method for fast restart of user apps on a user device. A host system hosts classes and resources of the user app, and a service app host application on the host system deploys an initial instance of the user app on the user device that includes additional instrumentation for enabling the user app to be quickly restarted on the user device with a set of changed classes and/or changed resources that comprise the latest version of the user app during development of the user app. This can significantly reduce the typically long turnaround time when developing and testing user apps as compared to current systems and methods. In a preferred embodiment, the system enables a fast restart of user apps running on Android user devices.

主权项

1. A method for updating a user app deployed on a user device, comprising:
creating restart classes archives for changed classes and/or new classes of the user app and sending the restart classes archives to the user device; creating restart resources archives for changed resources and/or new resources of the user app and sending the restart resources archives to the user device; and the user app reloading the changed classes and/or new classes from the received restart classes archives and requesting the changed resources and/or new resources from the received resources archives on the user device.