This recipe will introduce you to real-world business mobile apps and their related application servers. It is not a simple world. It is full of well-known and specific traps related to your infrastructure, your business logic, your application transactions, and so on. Just to be clear, you have to take care of your design and the way you implement it to a greater extent compared to a classic client/server application. Upon going deeper into mobile programming (and in general, in all asynchronous scenarios), you will see that things become harder than usual. In the mobile world, things can get messy really fast and your customers will complain even faster. Be warned!
This recipe is a mobile client for the People Manager application server developed in the Implementing a RESTful interface using WebBroker recipe in Chapter 6, Putting Delphi on the Server...