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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 6. Mobile Client Applications

 

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

 
 --Shakespeare

This chapter describes mobile client applications. It initially presents three mobile client application architectures and discusses the major architectural components of each of them. It goes on to discuss the pros and cons of each mobile client application architecture and some of the problems you may encounter when working with them. Finally, it discusses some of the best practices behind implementing these mobile client application architectures.

Thin Client

Earlier in this book, we discussed the idea that mobile client devices can operate in three connectivity modes with back-end servers: always connected, ...

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