Practically just finished my little proof-of-concept social-network backend (DAL+controller) & web-frontend (web2py views).
Now I plan to make the mobile app with PhoneGap <http://phonegap.com>. PhoneGap allows you to create native mobile-apps for 7 different mobile platforms in HTML+JS+CSS. I plan on developing this frontend first by exposing JSONRPC methods server-side—by decorating controllers—then interfacing with the API on the client-side using JavaScript. Reading "web2py Application Development Cookbook", and on page 217 (chapter 7) it tells me that to make authentication work for RPC calls I need to break regular authentication methods. Is there a way to avoid this? — Note that I'm currently logging in using the normal method, but will be using Facebook auth in production. Also, if there is a way to avoid rewriting the frontend from scratch that will work with PhoneGap, please tell me. Thanks for all suggestions, Alec Taylor --
