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8 mobile app development

Small devices

This had better be a
smartphone running
Honeycomb or Mr. Smooth
is history!

Putting your data on the Web opens up all types of possibilities.
Not only can anyone from anywhere interact with your webapp, but they are increasingly
doing so from a collection of diverse computing devices: PCs, laptops, tablets, palmtops,
and even mobile phones. And it’s not just humans interacting with your webapp that
you have to support and worry about: bots are small programs that can automate web
interactions and typically want your data, not your human-friendly HTML. In this chapter,
you exploit Python on Coach Kelly’s mobile phone to write an app that interacts with your
webapp’s data.

this is a new chapter 255