February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
10h 55m
English
Yes, you can. The gRPC framework is designed for communication in distributed systems. You can call a server API from a mobile app as it is calling any local object. That is the beauty of gRPC. It supports inter-service communication across the intranet and internet, and calls from mobile app to server and from web-browser to server. Therefore, it serves the purpose of all types of communication.
gRPC for web (gRPC-web) is quite new and adoption is in the early phase at the time of writing (in 2018). Ideally, first you would adopt it for your inter-service communication internally and then move to mobile-server communication.
Once you are comfortable, then you may want to adopt it for web clients (browsers). ...
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