We certainly are lucky to be living in interesting times. Times, when the human race and its ways of living and interacting are constantly evolving in all areas. Disruption and evolution seem to have become the two faces of the same coin.
While this discussion can cover n number of facets, let us focus the current scope on IT and how the convergence of several digital forces, mobile, SaaS, cloud, big data, IoT and social, are constantly disrupting markets. The effect of this is that the IT Industry is constantly having to evolve and adapt at faster speeds to live up to the expectations of the market. This is what is being termed as Enterprise Darwinism. In an an era where one must evolve to deliver customer success or die, Enterprise Darwinism or Digital Darwinism refers to the steps taken by enterprises to adapt to the external changes, adopt the right processes, start to think & operate differently in order to be able to scale up to be capable of meeting the challenges of digital transformations.
The digital competition along with advent of cloud and mobile has brought about a break down in the traditional IT operating model. IT is now more of an enabler for the business, providing support and training, as required to help the business consume available capabilities to build their own solutions, better suited to their needs.
In such an ecosystem, APIs will be key assets that IT teams will build for developers across the organization to use to build new apps, services, and processes. The demand will be for streamlined networks that use APIs to connect the company’s applications, data, and devices. These networks will be the backbones, providing right & fast information & connectivity, across the enterprise. This is what will help enterprises innovate faster, adapt better, create better customer experiences, and eventually get ahead of all competition.
This is exactly where MuleSoft comes into the picture. MuleSoft helps build application networks: seamless frameworks of applications, data sources, and devices connected by APIs, whether on-premises or in the cloud.
Mulesoft provides various APIs, connectors and models of middleware to centralize and standardize integration practices across an entire infrastructure. It provides a software platform that connects nearly every technology in a standardized way.
What is achieved using Mulesoft:
Mulesoft unlocks data using APIs and connecting it to external systems and applications
It enables to manage and secure the flow of data between all systems in the enterprise
Availability of self-serve existing APIs helps teams innovate faster
Developers across the organization can leverage existing APIs to create new processes and experiences
In a Nutshell, Mulesoft can become one of the critical tool to help adapt and evolve faster. As Darwin stated, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” If enterprise Integration is what can give your business the leading edge, Mulesoft is what can help you achieve it.
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Mobile application development is a set of processes and procedures involved in writing application software for small, handheld or wireless computing devices such as smart phones, PDAs, EDAs or tablets.
In Mobile App development process, Mobile User Interface (UI) Design is also an essential part considering constraints & contexts, screen, input and mobility as outlines for design.
One critical difference between Mobile application development and traditional software development, is that mobile applications (apps) are often written specifically to take advantage of the unique features a particular mobile device offers. So, the development should be centric on optimum performance for a given device, even when application is interacting with external applications.
In such a scenario (interaction with external world) REST API is the best option. REST stands for Representational State Transfer & it is a simple stateless architecture and a communication approach that generally runs over HTTP.
REST is preferred over SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) for development of web services as the latter is quite heavyweight and consumes comparatively greater bandwidth. Owing to its decoupled architecture and lighter weight communications, REST usage is very prevalent in mobile applications. It is a better fit for use over the Internet and easily binds with cloud-based APIs like those of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Here is an example to ” Create REST API client Async in android ”
1. This is AsyncTask which will run in background with affecting the UI.
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
public class CallRestApi extends AsyncTask
{
public AsyncResponse delegate=null;
public CallRestApi(AsyncResponse asyncResponse) {
delegate = asyncResponse;//Assigning call back interfacethrough constructor
}
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
// if you want, start progress dialog here
}
@Override
protected String doInBackground(String… params)
{
String urlString = params[0];
String resultToDisplay = “”;
InputStream in = null;
try
{
URL url = new URL(urlString);
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url
.openConnection();
in = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
resultToDisplay = convertStreamToString(in);
in.close();
} catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
return e.getMessage();
}
return resultToDisplay;
}
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
// if you started progress dialog dismiss it here
delegate.processFinish(result);
}
private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is)
{
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
try
{
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
{
sb.append(line + “\n”);
}
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
finally
{
try
{
is.close();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return sb.toString();
}
}
2. Create Interface for getting result.
This is for getting AsyncResponse in the activity class
public interface AsyncResponse {
void processFinish(Object output);
}
3. Call REST API client from activity class
private void functionName(String newUrl)
{
CallRestApi client = new CallRestApi(new AsyncResponse()
{
@Override
public void processFinish(Object output) {
String responseResult = ((String) output);
});
}
try
{
client.execute(new String[] { newUrl });
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
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