At our recent talk at Confess 2013 in Vienna there were several developers working with mobile devices in the audience. This is great as the purpose of hypermedia in the API is to make life simpler for client developers. However, after the talk several of them raised issues regarding the high latency and low bandwidth of mobile phones. In this post I will try to address both these concerns.
In this post we will implement the bookshop example (outlined in Why hypermedia APIs) as a hypermedia API using the framework Forest. This is a very long post because it touches on most aspects […]
When we talk about creating RESTful services using hypermedia we often get into discussions why the links are necessary. Why not simply publish a list of available URI:s and the client can code directly using these links? Won’t there be much overhead in putting links into every response? In this blogpost we will try to explain why we think a hypermedia API is useful.
tl;dr HTML is the lowest common denominator in a world where the number of devices are steadily growing. In such a world, our API should be hypermedia driven and we should consider choosing HTML […]
Recently I got to use the Google Maps Javascript API for the first time, which was a quite pleasant experience. The API is thoroughly documented and most of the parts I used just worked […]
Cocoa Touch added API for presenting a view controller in a popup bubble in iPhone OS 3.2, the responsible class is named UIPopoverController. One would guess that this new class is a subclass of […]
Google Collections is a natural evolution from the standard collections API in Java, bringing a much broader range of functionality to the existing collections and also providing several new collections for its users. The […]
All APIs have end-users. How and whether these users use a certain API depends on how useful the API is to them. This in turn is determined by what problem the API solves, how […]