Now that you have seen how the app works in an architectural sense and learned how to build screens, it is time to retrieve some actual data.
I don’t have any numbers or study to back this up, but I dare to make the claim that the percentage of apps that retrieve or send some kind of data to or from a backend service is very close to a hundred.
This chapter looks at various ways to communicate with the backend. It focuses on REST (Representational State Transfer) backends, which are popular because they use common HTTP for communication principles. In the first part, ...
