Adaptive application version integration support

A method, comprising:

• intercepting Application Programming Interface (API) calls made between a mobile application and a network-based service during a session between the mobile application and the network-based service;
• processing adapters that transform the API calls between an application version supported by the mobile application and a service version supported by the network-based service, wherein processing further includes determining an order for processing the adapters based on who are senders of the API calls, the application version, and the service version, and wherein determining further includes determining a total number of the adapters to process as an absolute value of a difference between the application version and the service version;
• and
• providing transformed API calls to the mobile application and the network-based service based on the processing during the session.

A system, comprising:

• a cloud-computing environment comprising at least one server having at least one processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having executable instructions representing a version manager and a network-based service;
• the network-based service when executed by the at least one processor from the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium causes the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
• interacting with a mobile application that executes on a mobile device using API calls associated with a released version of the network-based service;
• and
• providing one or more services to the mobile application through the API calls;
• the version manager when executed by the at least one processor from the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium causes the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
• intercepting mobile-application API calls associated with a different version of the network-based service before the network-based service obtains the mobile-application API calls;
• intercepting network-based service API calls provided by the network-based service before the mobile application obtains the network-based service API calls;
• processing adapters that make the mobile-application API calls compliant with the released version of the network-based service and supply compliant mobile-application API calls to the network-based service for processing and providing the one or more services;
• and
• processing the adapters that make the network-based service API calls compliant with the different version of the network-based service and supply compliant network-based service API calls to the mobile application;
• wherein processing the adapters that make the mobile-application API calls and the network-based service API calls compliant further includes determining an order for processing the adapters based on who are senders of the network-based service API calls, the different version, and the released version, and wherein determining further includes determining a total number of the adapters to process as an absolute value of a difference between the released version and the different version.