March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
7h 25m
English
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are an integral part of today's integrated development environments. They can also be understood through the client-server relationship, where the mobile app is the client requesting a resource and the API is at the server side and has a URL for any application that wants to make a request.
Most applications share common APIs between web and mobile. APIs are a great way of providing consistent operating behavior across different platforms. It also helps share the same business and data layer operations between different mobile application platforms, so you can use the same APIs for iOS, Android, and web applications.
APIs are so important in the development of a mobile application ...