Roughly two years ago, the Bodybuilding.com Commerce Engineering Team set out to deliver native mobile phone applications for iOS and Android that offered the same rich user experience that hundreds of thousands of customers enjoy within our web applications each day. We started with a couple of UI/UX mockups, a firm knowledge that we needed to develop an API, and a strong desire to make that API RESTful. A large, dedicated team spent 18 months of their lives learning and growing to achieve a soft launch of the applications in May of 2015 in the...