Application validation on RTDroid

Abstract

Android is becoming used more frequently in domains that expect some real-time guarantees. To facilitate the adoption of Android for programming real-time systems, this work presents a first effort to apply real-time scheduling theories to a real-time extension on Android, RTDroid. We integrate real-time properties specified in RT-Droid's application manifest with an existing real-time scheduling framework, Cheddar. We leverage Cheddar to perform schedulability analysis and feasibility tests, based on the properties of RTDroid application components specified in the application manifest. This paper details our integration process and reports our experience of validating real-time properties in a real-time application developed on RTDroid.