© Art Yudin 2020
A. YudinBuilding Versatile Mobile Apps with Python and RESThttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6333-4_1

1. Starting with Django

Art Yudin1  
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New York, NY, USA
 

“You can create a mobile app with no Swift at all?” my client asked me surprisingly. We were sitting at a coffee shop, and I was pitching an idea to use Python and Django for his mobile app. “Yes, that’s the idea,” replied I.

I will not go through the whole confidential conversation between me and my client here. But I could tell you this, he was very excited to know that he could save some money not hiring two separate teams for iOS and Android apps. Also, as a bonus, I promised him a desktop version of a web app running on the same Django engine and sharing the same database. ...

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