With the last two chapters, we build an app that is an island unto itself: all its data lives on the device it’s runnig on. That’s fine for many kinds of apps, but for others, you’re going to need a server to share some sort of data (or, just to make it available from places other than the device the app is running on). That’s a big part of application development these days in fact.
With this chapter and the next, we’ll build an app that bridges the divide into a larger world and uses a server. While this book is obviously not about building servers, that’s precisely what we’re ...
