Chapter 5. WebSockets for Mobile and Tablet
WebSockets work great on the Web and have a good performance. We have seen how easy and powerful WebSockets are to implement on the web. With the growth of mobile phones, the need for applications to shift from desktop to mobile has become very important. In this chapter, we will focus on how WebSocket behaves and its implementation on mobile and tablets.
Mobile devices and the WebSocket
The whole world is moving to mobile devices; then why shouldn't we? Mobiles have become very powerful and they can do what a computer can do. Similarly, browsers have become very powerful and they have also started adopting HTML5. Not only browsers, even application support has increased. Lots of applications are available ...
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