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Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API

You're reading from   Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API Confident of your web application skills but not yet au fait with mobile development? Well this book helps you use the Kendo UI for a painless introduction. Practical tasks and clear instructions make learning a breeze.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782160922
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Mobile Application Using HTML5 FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First Mobile Application 3. Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API 4. Integration Using Framework Elements 5. Exploring Mobile Widgets 6. ActionSheet, ModalView, and More Widgets 7. Movie Tickets Application – Complete Integration Index

Building a service for the Movie Tickets application

Now that we have covered some of the basics of ASP.NET Web API, let's start building the backend service for our Movie Tickets application. Since this book is not about database or accessing data, the approach we are following is to hardcode data (data for objects are added while instantiating objects) that is returned by the service in a repository class and not to read the data from a database.

Let's look at the high-level view of our service architecture:

Building a service for the Movie Tickets application

The service architecture is simplified so that we don't spend a lot of time on topics outside the context of the book, such as DB design, data access, and so on.

The requests from the client mobile app will be received by the ASP.NET Web API request pipeline and an action method in a controller will be invoked. The action method will, in turn, invoke the Business layer for fetching or updating data, which, in turn, invokes the Repository class to return hardcoded data...

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