http://ironjan.de/categories/Projects/Recent content in Projects on Just another blog...Hugoen-usFri, 15 Sep 2023 00:15:00 +0000http://ironjan.de/post/2023-09-15-rust-rewrite-app-apis-1/Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:15:00 +0000http://ironjan.de/post/2023-09-15-rust-rewrite-app-apis-1/<h3 id="motivation">Motivation</h3> <p>My two Android apps Metal Only and MensaUPB require some kind of online service to get their data from and - since I cannot force users to update apps easily - I wrote my own API as a wrapper to the upstream APIs provided by <a href="https://www.metal-only.de/">https://www.metal-only.de/</a> and <a href="https://studierendenwerk-pb.de/">https://studierendenwerk-pb.de/</a>. That way, whenever one of these pages changes their API, I can just adapt the wrapper and keep my own API backwards-compatible so the apps themselves don&rsquo;t require any updates.</p>