9. Communicating with Web APIs
As both the complexity of mobile applications and the capabilities of mobile devices increase, app developers frequently find themselves in a situation where their app needs to communicate with a Web API. While this communication vastly increases the capability of an app, it also injects significant complexity from both the user experience and technical standpoints. This chapter discusses some of the problems that commonly occur with app-to-server communication, and it presents some tools and guidance for making app-to-server communication easier for the developer and transparent to the user.
REST and Web Services
A common architecture for creating a system that allows a mobile device to communicate with a back-end ...
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