Questions tagged [mobile]
**Mobile application development** is the process by which application software is developed for mobile devices (usually low-power handheld or portable devices).
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XDIME for Mobile Applications
I'm involved in a project that requires to mobile-enable some previously developed Portlets. The Portlets are deployed in WebSphere Portal, and the container offers a technology called IBM Mobile ...
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Is it possible to use a reverse proxy authentication in a native mobile app
We have a few backend services that our frontend SPAs fetch data from. Right now, the SPAs use JS libraries to authenticate with the Auth server (Azure AD) which returns a JWT which is validated by my ...
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Handling account roles in Android app
I'm building an Android app where different "types" of users can log in - lets say User and Admin are the two roles (there could be more than two). User can access some views in the app, by pressing ...
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Architecture: mobile apps for different clients with their own dbs different servers?
My general feeling is that this is a question which must have been answered but I am struggling to find resources for it. I know little about mobile app dev but my knowledge of web services is pretty ...
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Database version management on mobile apps
I am about to start building a mobile (iOS/Android) app that uses a local database (probably SQLite). Since this is my first "real" mobile app, I am wondering what the standard approaches are to ...
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System Design: Chat application in a distributed system context
I am currently working on a side project so I can learn new technologies and understand how the components fit together. For this project, I decided that I wanted to work on Chat Applications in the ...
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How can I handle common string content on a multiplatform mobile app?
I'm working on a mobile app that has been developed for iOS and Android (both native), localised into over 10 languages. A lot of the static string content in the app is common between the two ...
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How would one implement communication between an input device and a PC?
I'm trying to get started on a side project using a mobile device (tablet or smartphone) as an input device to a PC. In its most simplest form, I envision using the mobile device touchscreen to ...
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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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Mobile IOS Application to Server interaction design?
I've built a set of what will be server-side programs in python. Essentially they crawl the net and index news articles.
The iOS mobile application will be what the user interacts with. So it needs ...
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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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Reading (GET) Facebook Ads From Ad Library and Reading (GET) Personal Ad Account Billing Data in my Android Application
I'm trying to create an android application for personal use to do the following:
Get ads from the Facebook ad library (commercial ones) not the ones with politics topics etc. and then insert them ...
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Biometric authentication with back-end verification service process
I am working on an application where I will be using Android and iOS biometric authentication.
Coding the use of biometrics on the devices, including prompting and determining whether or not the user ...
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Should I use SignalR to synchronize & cache CRUD data to a mobile app?
I'm considering using SignalR to send data to a mobile app, but need to have a way to synchronize data while it's closed or pending updates.
Is it a good idea to use Backbone.js <--> SignalR to ...
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How do I keep users of a PWA up to date when the application is in idle / hibernate?
So I'm currently building a .Net Blazor PWA, and I was wondering how the behaviour of my application looks like when it is installed on a mobile device, and the user is done with the app for the time ...
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Relying on file hash for data synchronisation across mobile and server
Imagine a client-server app that lets user upload images/documents etc. to server and then lets users who have access, retrieve and view them later on their
respective mobile devices.
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Does ConnectSDK require both a tv and mobile app?
I am currently investigating the use of the ConnectSDK by LG. While reading through their documentation, I noticed there was no clear mention of wether there should be both a TV application and mobile ...
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Should I have a separate "Application" server to handle the REST traffic, or just one server to handle both browser and API (REST) traffic?
Let's forget scaling or cloud configuration for a second.
Think of an application with a few platforms:
Mobile (iOS, Android)
Desktop (Windows, OS X)
Web (HTML/CSS/JS)
The question is regarding the ...
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How to set up login pin system
i want to set up basic login page in xamarin.forms. There is no username/password, just a simple pin
so far i have 3 pages to do this
Sign-up Pin page
Sign-up Confirm Pin Page (re-enter pin to ...
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How to generate object Ids for both local and online storage?
My application has both offline (SQLite) and online (iCloud) storage. See: Offline First: How Do I Fetch Data?
Now, as stated in my past question above, the application is offline first, and I'm ...
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Managing code responsibility separation on large mobile app
I work for a large corporation with some different business units.
Each of this business unities has their own group of developers.
We have to build a mobile app that has features from each of these ...
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Asp.net MVC web application and iOS mobile app
I am currently writing a web application in ASP.NET MVC, so far it is mostly a simple CRUD web app. The database is hosted on the cloud and I am using Entity Framework to interact with it.
I know ...
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One Super App or Many Single-Purpose Apps
While Players like Rappi/Alibaba / Wechat have gone the super app way, i.e on single app to host many unrelated services, Ecosystems like Google, Amazon etc still have multiple single purpose ...
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Measuring the usability / ease of use of RESTful API in Mobile Cloud Computing?
APIs vary in their complexity, functionality and also usability. In Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) applications, which are mainly mobile applications that offloads processing / storage to the cloud, ...
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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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How can I webscrap images from pinterest and use them in a mobile app?
I have this idea of an app and I'm a little frustrated by how much I don't know how to proceed.
My app is basically an art recommendation app.
You start with 3 base images and for each images you ...
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How much different is the business logic in enterprise applications vs mobile applications?
only one thing after discuss my doubt i am a mobile developer and i am trying to adapt DDD, and i say adapt because a lot of information is related to backend applications
My doubt start because i ...
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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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App notifications for a web app
I am a programmer with some experience in building PHP web apps.
My latest idea is to build a web app in Laravel which would let driver-users register the route they are going to take when going ...
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