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Do you think it is a good idea to expose hypermedia api (HATEOAS) for native clients (android, iOS)? What are the difficulties when the clients try to consume such an API?

I assume that the UI will be driven by the responses form the API.

I have zero experience with native clients and how they are built internally.

mynkow
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Hypermedia seems made for mobile devices considering the limitations of data transfer due to speed, cost and availability.

This post addresses two of the concerns I had.

Perhaps someone else can speak to HATEOS libraries available for Native platforms.

HTH

pierre renoir
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  • 10x for the comment. This is a really nice post from Jan. My concerns are when building the UI for native dynamically and the latency which comes with this approach. Same addressed there. I hope more people share their experience here. – mynkow Feb 16 '14 at 16:57