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Mobile applications and services have changed different aspects of modern life, besides allowing to be accessed by mobile devices at any moment, regardless of time and place. These devices usually interact with more powerful machines usually hosted at Internet on public clouds. This paper presents MpOS (Multiplatform Offloading System), a framework that supports a method-based offloading technique for applications of different mobile platforms, and was also developed initially for Android and Windows Phone. The framework provides several services to support the offloading process (e.g., discovery service, deployment service, and network profiler). In order to assess the proposed framework, we first developed an application using the MpOS framework for both Android and Windows Phone platforms. Finally, we performed an experiment to evaluate the developed applications performance. The result shows …