How to avoid hardcoded urls in IOS/Android app

Question

I'm developing a django web-project and I'm going to develop its IOS and Android API. Is there a way to avoid using hardcoded url addresses in the app code?Something like django url name system

The following problem faces me if there isn't any solution to my question:

If I want to change some of my urls, I should change the app code and also all the previous installed apps on peoples' devices won't work and should be updated.

take a look at this [answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/19168199/5519369) , good luck — Mohammed Elrashied, Oct 20 '16 at 18:42
@MohamedRa This actually doesn't solve the problem. If I change urls from server side, the app will not work anymore — kianoosh, Oct 20 '16 at 18:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '16 at 19:18

The way I see it, you probably have two options:

a) Code very generic forwarding links into your app, such as:

http://www.example.com?linkid=1

http://www.example.com?linkid=2

You can then, from your side, forward these on to where you need them to go by using the query string ID number.

b) Write a web service to push updated URLs to your app, maybe on load so you're not polling the service all the time.

How often are the URLs likely to change?

How to avoid hardcoded urls in IOS/Android app

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