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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Timothy Murray, San Francisco, CA (US);
Stephen Roderick Hines, San Jose, CA (US);
Rudy Jason Sams, San Jose, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for providing compatibility of applications with multiple versions of an operating system are provided. The method may comprise receiving, by a device, a request to perform a function-call of an application that references features of a first version of an operating system. The method also includes determining whether a version of the operating system and a system library on the device supports the function-call of the application so as to be able to perform dynamic compilation of code in the system library for the function-call at run-time, and based on the determination, accessing a compatibility library associated with the application that includes pre-compiled code for execution by a given device having a given version of the operating system other than the first version of the operating system. The method also includes at run-time, performing the function-call using corresponding pre-compiled code from the compatibility library.