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Creating an app with a secured performing service the Microsoft way
This week I want to start a greater app project that is expected to handle much data. The app will provide an interactive forum, a media library that allows streaming and a task module with push ...
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What is the way to keep track of mobile clients ip?
assume Service S want send data to mobile App in device A in arbitrary time without client interaction.
what is best way to keep track of A IP?
the only way i can think of is to run a service for ...
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Web-based vs Native Social Login on Mobile Clients
I've been researching this topic for days, but can't really find any solid reference surrounding this topic..
The idea is providing social login for mobile client apps. That's it. Sharing, accessing ...
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RESTful Api for Mobile Clients
I am mobile developer and always have one particular fight with my web-service/backend developer which believe in designing restful api.
Issue: As per Restful design,every api should be atomic in ...
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How to handle authentication to web service from mobile?
I'm making a mobile application, and I use JSON Web Token Authentication (JWT Auth), but I have three questions about:
Should I use refresh-tokens or non-expiring access tokens?
In case I use refresh-...
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single app and multiple distributed service versions
The problem that I have is with versioning of a single mobile application (created with Cordova) and the WCF web services that it consumes.
Situation: The latest version of the mobile app is always ...
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Is RESTFUL API as back-end service one of the best (or suitable) choice for Mobile App? [closed]
I have a background on .NET development, recently I was asked to code back-end service for a mobile app. I had experiences on MVC, and now I'm trying to understand more on Restful Web API.
My ...
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How do I authenticate users from facebook/twitter?
I need to build a site for a mobile app that allows users to sign in with facebook/twitter or sign up as a new user (traditional username/password).
No matter which method the user chooses, they ...
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iOS chat application design, sending/relaying the message over to the end user
I have a design question. Let us say you were tasked with building a chat application, specifically for iOS (iOS Chat Application). For simplicity let us say you can only chat with one person at a ...
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Best approach for propagating errors in service access layer of a multiplatform mobile app
We've started working on a mobile app using Xamarin. There's a core library that is to be shared among Android and iOS apps. In the core library there will be several functions for communicating with ...
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Connecting a native iOS app to backend and database
I have a good amount of experience working with objective-C and making iOS apps that work locally and with BaaS providers (Parse.com). However, I'd like to take my mobile development to the next level ...
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REST vs RESTful vs "normal" web service - the same or not?
I've read a couple of definitions and discussion on REST and/or RESTful applications, but I still do not understand the real meaning of it.
I usually work with the apps which either fetch data via ...
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Best method of communication between your app and your website? PHP, Web service, etc
I am creating an application which I would like to have communicate with my website. The app will have to get data for a particular app user from the website's database. I am unclear as to the best ...
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Best way to maintain data between local and remote sql databases [duplicate]
So I have, what would seem like a common question that I can't seem to find an answer to. I'm trying to find what is the "best practice" for how to architect a database that maintains data locally, ...
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Facebook and Twitter authentication from Mobile Applications
I might be missing something with the Facebook and Twitter logins APIs. Something that is blocking me from understanding how they would be used in mobile applications.
Both APIs seem like they need ...
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