An Android application launch analyzing system

Android is applied on various devices such as smart phone, tablet PC, and music players, and its users are increasing year by year. However, Android is still developing. Its performance is not enough, and performance analyzing environment has not been developed. Thus, its performance cannot be discussed well. Especially, application launching performance has not been analyzed enough even so it is one of the important performances for users. One reason for this is that Android has a specialized launching procedure. In this paper, we focus on application launch performance, with the goal of realizing their detailed analysis. Specifically, we propose a system that enables a profound investigation of an application launch procedure by modifying the Android system to capture events in the kernel and application frameworks associated with the application launch. Our evaluation with our implementation demonstrated that the proposed system could clearly point the time-consuming processes out and served to profoundly analyze performance.