Patent ID: 9335990
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An application development support method for generating an application by building resources including a library and a manifest file, the method comprising: providing an application development environment for supporting designing, coding, debugging, and testing the application using a graphical user interface (GUI); managing the application development environment to be generated in a unit of a project; defining the project and editing source code in the defined project at the time of generating the application; extracting, when there are a plurality of versions of a platform serving as an operating system being an operation target for the application, a library commonly required by all the plurality of versions of the platform from a build resource storing unit; identifying and extracting a library that is not commonly required by all the plurality of versions of the platform but required from the build resource storing unit; inquiring about a public interface relating to an un-extracted library in the build resource storing unit, wherein inquiring about the public interface includes i) searching for an application programming interface (API) which is used in the library by other applications and ii) declaring and dynamically generating a process for inquiring about the public interface in order to determine which API is used or not used by the application to be built; generating a manifest file for a difference detected when inquiring about the public interface; connecting the generated manifest file with a manifest file existing in the build resource storing unit, wherein the manifest file describes information on declaring in order to determine which API is used or not used by the application to be built; and building the application on the basis of the library and the manifest file included in the build resource storing unit.