MOBILE APPLICATION VOLATILITY MANAGEMENT FOR SITUATIONAL APPLICATIONS

A method for managing situational mobile applications of high volatility in a mobile computing device includes first defining a policy specifying under which context a mobile application is to remain installed in a mobile computing device. Thereafter, the policy is loaded into memory of the device and a geolocation is determined for the device. In this regard, the geolocation may include a location of the device, or a present time and date for a location of the device. The policy then is applied to the determined context and, in response to a determination from the application of the policy that the mobile application is to be uninstalled based upon a location of the device being outside of a designated geographic area in which the mobile application had been installed in the device, the mobile application is automatically uninstalled from the device.