Five key trends that mobile developers and enterprises adopting a mobile program can benefit from right now.
The Internet of APIs
Whether you think the Apple Watch is a smartphone, a wearable, a sensor or a supercomputer with a really tiny screen, you are 100 percent right. Form factors are blurring the boundaries between mobile and IoT use cases. What both domains have in common is that applications are conceived, created and connected API-first. What sits behind the API – a “thing,” a “system,” or a “service” – doesn’t matter as much as how you can interface with it. REST-based and real-time APIs aren’t a luxury anymore, they’re table stakes.
Recommendation: Research API management best practices and vendors. Don’t build or buy any more apps without a solid, public, documented API.