I am working on a mobile site that will run alongside a mobile app being developed by another company. My product manager has provided a spec, in which she is mentioning two options to implement a feature:
Clicking on button from mobile app will open mobile browser, where the user will need to login again, and proceed to perform required action.
Clicking on button from mobile app will open in-app browser, user does not need to login, and completes the entire flow and closes the in-app browser.
My question is: I do not understand difference between mobile browser and in-app browser. Does in-app just mean mobile browser opened from inside the app? And if that is so, then using PHP will I be able to recognize the current login in the app? or is there any way I can ask the mobile team to set a session when they open the "in-app" browser such that I can access that session and determine who is logged in?
As you can see, I am pretty ok with PHP and server side coding, but my knowledge of these new mobile technologies is very poor...I guess I am getting just too od for this job now.. sigh.
Any pointers are very much appreciated.
