Mobile application development is growing rapidly in the last few years that it hasn't become solely for big named brands and companies, Today more and more small and midsize businesses and institutions are following the trend of providing mobile based applications to support their work and popularity. This process has had great benefits on the growth of businesses and institutions, but in the same time has come with some burdens to overcome for the developers and programmers of such applications to ensure the consistency between the original business website functionality and the extended mobile applications that supports the websites. In this paper, a proposed architecture for a business employee services website and its supporting mobile application is presented which uses a single web service to support both applications, providing all the functionality needed to ensure consistency between them while at the same time reducing the time and effort needed for programmers and developers to maintain both of them in the best possible way. The code samples in this paper were implemented using the ASP.net programming language for the web service and web site and android programming for the mobile application, but the same architecture can be implemented in any other development language and environment.

Web Development Mobile Development Web Services