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A few months ago my colleague, Ralf Sternberg, wrote an article on “how to access a huge dataset with the web browser“. Now, if it’s possible to access very large datasets with a browser, wouldn’t it be really cool to access it in the same way with mobile devices? As you may have heard, we launched RAP mobile two days ago. And, we did just that. With RAP mobile you can access exactly the same dataset with exactly the same code as in Ralf’s post. Check out the screencast below and the source code on github. What I find intriguing about this framework is that it is fast. The information displayed in the UI is retrieved asynchroniously from the server while the user is scrolling through this enormous set of data. The native iOS client takes care of the proper preloading, caching and memory management.