I'm an experienced ASP.NET developer and have worked with the Telerik controls for years. I’m interested in developing a mobile web application and would like to use the Kendo framework for its cross-device support. I’m having a hard time getting my head around the architecture for building an app that will access remote data and perform some simple authentication. The app needs to:
1) Post to a remote URL and consume the simple XML response for authentication
2) Retrieve remote data from a SQL database
3) Potentially interact with a server file system
4) Serve selected PDF files natively to the device
Can someone give me a high-level idea of how we’d accomplish the following using the client-side library? My experience tells me to write server-side scripts that output the JavaScript code that Kendo uses, but I’m pretty sure that’s old-school thinking. Any advice would be helpful, I’m having a tough time getting my head around how to get started.
1) Post to a remote URL and consume the simple XML response for authentication
2) Retrieve remote data from a SQL database
3) Potentially interact with a server file system
4) Serve selected PDF files natively to the device
Can someone give me a high-level idea of how we’d accomplish the following using the client-side library? My experience tells me to write server-side scripts that output the JavaScript code that Kendo uses, but I’m pretty sure that’s old-school thinking. Any advice would be helpful, I’m having a tough time getting my head around how to get started.