CHAPTER5

Working with Mobile Backends

Understanding mobile backends is critical for successfully deploying and managing mobile services. Going back to the window analogy from the previous chapter, we can think of a mobile backend as the frame of a window that organizes the panes (how I described REST APIs) into a single, cohesive view. But it is more than just APIs. A mobile backend also brings together all the various assets and artifacts being independently created within MCS into a common instance to support a specific set of mobile apps, or mobile use cases.

Within a mobile backend, you can access and manage a set of users and roles, a ...

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