Using Swift with Cocoa and Objective-C

Came across the following pre-release documentation while searching on how to mix Swift and Objective-C. Seems pretty easy!

Using Swift with Cocoa and Objective-C

Mobile-friendly Server Interfaces

Watched this video on InfoQ about designing APIs for the mobile applications. Few good tips and insights I gathered after watching it are as follows.

1. Things to consider while designing the mobile APIs
   • Battery life
   • Latency
   • Chunky vs. Chatty
2. gZip data, especially JSON.
3. Instead of loading everything in one go, think about loading data on events.
4. Should the application (hence the APIs) be optimized for reading or writing or both?
5. Have caching strategy in place. Cache, not only on the client side, but also on the server side.
6. Granular, true REST interfaces are great but you might end up making several calls to get the data your screen needs. You might have to create screen specific APIs ( the APIs that provide data and services for one screen ) in order to reduce the # of calls made to the server.
7. Pre-generate or pre-process and cache the data that you think the application might need.
8. Offload work to the client.