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Mobile Applications: Architecture, Design, and Development
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Mobile Applications: Architecture, Design, and Development

by Valentino Lee, Heather Schneider, Robbie Schell
April 2004
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
7h 58m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 3. Mobile Application Architectures

 

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

 
 --Proverbs 29:18

In this chapter, we discuss mobile application architectures. We start by describing some of the general concepts and terms behind client-server architectures and follow this by describing clients and servers and the connectivity between them. We then present several interesting architectural patterns and describe why they are useful as general mobile application architecture solutions. Finally, we discuss some of the tenets behind good architectural design and the considerations you need to be aware of when designing mobile applications.

Client-Server

Application architectures are often modeled to highlight or illustrate the overall layout ...

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