Chapter 2
Information: The Foundation of an App
The basis of all meaningful applications is information, and we design and build applications to exchange, create, or store it. Mobile applications are no different. In today’s well-connected mobile landscape, information exchange is the name of the game. To illustrate this point, imagine an Android phone without mobile network or WiFi coverage. While there would still be uses for such a phone, you would have lost access to some of the more important applications on your device. For example, e-mail, instant messaging, web browsing, and any other application that require the Internet would now be nonfunctional.
In later chapters, we will focus our efforts on examining information in transit and ...
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