Web Platform API Design Principles and Service Contract

Android application development and testability

“…If an application is communicating to the server backend, the protocol must be designed in such a way that several versions of an application will be able to talk with the current version of the server. In general, RESTful services encourage a simple model of communication that is easy to version and maintain compatibility [3]. Stateful or procedural RPCs pose more challenges because they can add more semantics to the communication that may be easier to break between versions than simple entity transfer.…”