Designing API for Mobile Apps
summary
Practical checklist for mobile APIs: merge responses to match UI, support expand/nesting so clients request only needed fields, enable keep-alive and gzip (compressing large payloads up to ~90%), and document with Swagger. Case study reduces endpoints from 36 to 20, full-cycle calls from 86 to 20, and cuts data sent by 84%, improving load times (initial screen drops to about 5 seconds). Build a mobile facade rather than breaking the public API.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Designing APIs for mobile
- 1:25Mobile network limitations
- 3:38Optimizing API responses
- 5:58Handling data in mobile
- 8:14Compression and tooling
- 10:23Deployment and Backend
- 12:19Paging and data strategies
- 13:28Case study and conclusion
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