# Replacing Android mobile app with Ignition Perspective?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/replacing-android-mobile-app-with-ignition-perspective/116999>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [September 4, 2026, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/replacing-android-mobile-app-with-ignition-perspective/116999 "2026-09-04T21:03:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alfredo\_Egmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ccd318/32.png) [@Alfredo\_Egmo](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alfredo_Egmo)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 9:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/replacing-android-mobile-app-with-ignition-perspective/116999/1 "2026-09-04T21:03:36Z")

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Asking for a development recommendation:

If I create views in perspective and I use from there calls http to get/send information from a server (as the simple example below) to replace an android mobile application that we already have, is this recommended ? or this is not recommended for some reason?

thanks

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/replacing-android-mobile-app-with-ignition-perspective/116999/2 "2026-09-05T02:03:35Z")

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Unlike your mobile app, the Perspective script will run in the gateway, and the API call will therefore have a different origin from what you are currently doing. And will involve at least two more messages: Perspective client to GW, GW to API, API response to GW, GW UI update in Perspective.

This may be acceptable, but you should test.