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Mobile app and desktop app interaction

  • 29-05-2016 09:45PM
    #1
    pillphil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 793 ✭✭✭


    This is a bit of a vague question, sorry about that. I've only made simple programs so far, like a basic flight booking program with a database.

    I'm trying to develop an application just for the sake of learning. I'm using a framework to develop the part of the application that runs on a PC. It actually runs through browser so it might be able to be accessed by mobile phones too, but what I'm wondering is:
    The main application is developed in C#, if I develop a mobile app(probably java?) to work alongside this program, is all the interaction between the app and the application only through the database?

    It seems to me like this is all the interaction they would need, but I'm just wondering if this is the normal way of doing it?


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  • #2
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,272 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    If the desktop app is the main backend and works through a browser, then I'm assuming you're a local server hosting the project?

    Can you host this app on a server somewhere and access it?

    If so, I'd consider exposing an API from the C# project that any app can consume. This way any language can interact with it easily


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