APPLICATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOBILE TERMINAL

An apparatus and a method for processing an application in a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes loading, by a bootloader upon system booting, a kernel, determining whether the kernel is modified, creating, when the kernel is modified, kernel verification information indicating a custom kernel, encrypting the kernel verification information, and sending the encrypted kernel verification information, activating, by a kernel handler, the kernel, and receiving the kernel verification information from the bootloader, and forwarding the kernel verification information, decrypting, by a rooting detector, the kernel verification information into kernel status information and delivering the kernel status information when a specified Application Programming Interface (API) is invoked, and invoking, by an application handler, the API when an application is executed and controlling an execution of the application when the kernel status information indicating the custom kernel is received.