{"id":1032,"date":"2018-04-05T09:43:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T09:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2021-05-09T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T06:31:29","slug":"guide-to-designing-restful-apis-for-your-mobile-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sysbunny.com\/blog\/guide-to-designing-restful-apis-for-your-mobile-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Designing RESTful APIs for Your Mobile App"},"content":{"rendered":"APIs are now essential components of mobile applications and serve many decent purposes, so trends are rising to create custom RESTful APIs for unique and innovative purposes. In due course,\u00a0<\/span>top mobile app developers<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0try to know and learn API development.<\/span>\n

Introduction:<\/span><\/h3>\nSuppose your sit in a big Pub and looking for the best vine. It may be Whisky, Rum, Vodka, and so on. A waiter approaches your table and asks for the order; you place whatever you like to drink today. The waiter goes to a storage room, or service counter where the service request is taken, delivers the wine bottles or glasses of vines, and prepares the bills accordingly.<\/span>\n\nIt is a waiter who connects seated customers with the service counter and accomplishes critical business needs.<\/span>\n

Understanding Needs of API<\/span><\/h3>\nNow, we shift our eyes from an ordinary person’s perspective to a software engineer’s perspective.<\/span>\n\nWe used to take GPS services where satellite data define GPS-enabled devices and want to present to the device user. We know GPS data come into the format of geo-location coordinates that hardly anyone can understand. Therefore, we need to render a world map that pinpoints the user’s exact location using those coordinates-data.<\/span>\n\nGoogle Map services are for this specific purpose, and we need to bring its interface to the device or the user. So, could it be possible? Let’s go to our previous example of a waiter in a pub.<\/span>\n\nHere, our waiter acts as an API or ‘<\/span>Application Programming Interface,’<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0which connects a client device like a desktop PC or a mobile device to the webserver of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and many due courses that provide APIs for their services.<\/span>\n\nJust like our waiter, API takes requests from the client devices and passes them to the web servers or cloud servers for different processes. Once the processes are accomplished and results\/products ready to serve the client device, the same API brings those to the client device from the server and finishes its job.<\/span>\n\nUntil this point, we have talked about external APIs provided by the third-party service providers that we used to integrate with our mobile applications and leverage their services, whether for free of charge or something, in exchange for the services.<\/span>\n\nNow, suppose you have big mobile and web applications for internal and external usage, and you need to develop your API internally. It would be best if you had a guide to building a practical, efficient, and cost-effective API for your internal use. The current post gives massive guidance as an outline for the aspirant mobile and web developers to serve the same purpose.<\/span>\n

What is API?<\/span><\/h3>\nTechnically, API is a series of request messages (In the form of HTTP\/s), which communicate protocols, routines, and various tools to build and run the software application. At present, two main types of API protocols are used by developers.<\/span>\n