What's a Mobile Backend? It does not take an expert to determine that the computing power of a server is most likely greater than the computing power of a mobile device. If an application has a heavy computational load than it becomes more efficient for the mobile device to send parameters to a backend server to do the heavy lifting and then …
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How to Create a Football (Soccer) App with the Football Science API
Introduction There is no doubt that football is one of the most popular sports in the world. But sometimes it is really difficult to track all the upcoming events. There are so many leagues and teams, which is why it might make sense to use a match scheduler to keep you up to date with what’s happening and when (especially if you're involved in …
How to Build an Android App with Python (and the WordsAPI)
Introduction Mobile applications have become an integral part of the way we work. Today, we are going to create an Android mobile app for WordsAPI. This will be a powerful app that will cover the chosen API and extend it with some additional NLP features. As the main project instrument, we will use Python. We also have the opportunity …
Application vs. Program (What’s the Difference?)
Application vs. Program In the ever-evolving world of technology, we often have to familiarize ourselves with various terms that come up every single day. And while most of the words come with sharp differences, at times, we come across terms that are considered to mean the same thing even though they are totally different. A perfect example …
How To Use the ClimaCell Weather API to Outsmart the Weather
Today we are excited to announce that the ClimaCell Weather API is now available on RapidAPI! ClimaCell offers hyper-accurate weather data from any minute in the past with unprecedented resolution, through an easy to consume restful API. By partnering with RapidAPI, the Climacell API is now available to our entire community of developers to connect …
What Is a Mobile App, and Does Your Business Need One?
We use our smartphones for what feels like everything, empowered by apps to do nearly whatever we see fit. From social media to hotel booking, to weather forecasts for the upcoming week, there are thousands of apps for an even greater number of functions. As the adage goes: “There's an app for that.” But, what exactly is an app? What Is an …
Build Amazing Chat Apps with These Chatbot APIs
Chatbots are popping up just about everywhere these days – on your smartphone, in your connected car, on many of the websites you visit. It’s hard not to get excited about chatbots when so many companies are using AI technologies and APIs to build such innovative and amazing chat apps. For example, researchers at Microsoft are developing an …