Using REST Services
Until now, all the work we’ve been doing has been local to a device (a phone, Windows, or Mac). The design of Forget Me Not entails the use of a service in the cloud that will manage all our data – invitations to a program, registration, authentication, data persistence, and so on.
A client interacts with a server through a REST API (also called a RESTful API).
An Application Program Interface (API) is a set of definitions and protocols to interact with an application. In our case, the API we care about is the cloud-based ForgetMeNot.API.
Knowing more about REST
For our purposes, that is really all you need to know about REST, but if you are curious, you can find out more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer.
