Self-Healing Navigation Graphs in Android Apps for Crash Recovery and Route Rehydration
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.63282/3050-9246.IJETCSIT-V6I3P112Keywords:
Android development, self-healing systems, navigation architecture, crash recovery, state preservation, route rehydration, adaptive navigation graphsAbstract
The increasing complexity of Android applications and their navigation systems has introduced critical challenges in maintaining application stability during crashes and ensuring seamless user experience restoration. Traditional navigation architectures in Android applications suffer from catastrophic failures when encountering unexpected crashes, configuration changes, or memory pressure situations, leading to complete navigation stack loss and poor user experience. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for implementing self-healing navigation graphs that automatically recover from crashes, preserve navigation state, and rehydrate user routes intelligently. Our research addresses compatibility crash problems where Android apps crash on certain Android versions but not on others, which is extremely challenging for app developers due to the fragmented Android ecosystem. The proposed self-healing architecture introduces adaptive state preservation mechanisms, intelligent crash detection algorithms, and dynamic route reconstruction capabilities that collectively reduce navigation-related crashes by up to 92% while maintaining seamless user experience across diverse Android configurations. These strategies have been validated across multiple Android API levels and device configurations, demonstrating their effectiveness in real-world deployment scenarios with millions of users
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