I am a complete novice in the mobile application domain, so excuse the ignorance.
My question is, how does an application like betfair constantly update market prices? Or an application like Soccerway update football scores every 5 seconds?
Does my mobile (via app) make a service call every 5 seconds and retrieve data? Even when the application is inactive? Or do these apps push data to subscribers?
Trying to get my head around the architecture involved in data refresh.
Thanks.
My question is, how does an application like betfair constantly update market prices? Or an application like Soccerway update football scores every 5 seconds?
Does my mobile (via app) make a service call every 5 seconds and retrieve data? Even when the application is inactive? Or do these apps push data to subscribers?
Trying to get my head around the architecture involved in data refresh.
Thanks.