Remote App Server

There are a number of variations on a remote app server:

• Consider a standard Android contact manager running on the server. As such, the contacts can then be the complete contact information of the corporation or organization that is running the server. By allowing the most current corporate contact database to be accessed without having to sync contacts with the mobile devices of personnel, a major security risk is avoided in case of lost or stolen mobile devices. One large corporate server should be able to support hundreds of concurrent Android apps.
• Another possibility would be to provide data storage that is private to each client. This might be done with separate linux containers environments for each client. In this configuration each local client would have private contact lists.
• Consider an application such as Google Maps running on the remote server. In this case, queries of the location manager originating on the remote server must be executed on the local device and returned to the remote server. Input (keys and touchscreen) must be performed locally and sent to the remote server. In addition, audio from the application (turn by turn instructions) must be sent to the local device.