Consider gRPC for Mobile APIsby@skiph
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Consider gRPC for Mobile APIs

by Skip Hovsmith6mFebruary 5th, 2019
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gRPC is an open source remote procedure call (RPC) framework that runs across many different client and server platforms. It commonly uses protocol buffers (protobufs) to efficiently serialize structured data for communication. The shapes API enables the client to request and receive a single or stream of specific or random shapes. We’ll run through a few beginning scenarios to get a feel for how easy it is to develop mobile apps on Android using gRpc-based APIs.

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