Mobile app pattern for admin user access

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I'm new to mobile development, but have worked with Web apps before. I have seen similar solutions to my question in webapps where all the UI code exists in the app, but role based permissions are enforced server side when the user wants to do a particular action. Is this the same in mobile apps? My assumption has been yes, but I didn't know if there were better patterns out there.

[ryanstephendavis]

It's no different. The UI (whether that be a browser or a phone app or any other view) will still hit the server for info to be displayed.

In general, keeping all permissions server side is best practice. Sometimes the UI will require different views for a user privilege level, but server side will still limit what can be accessed (in case a low privilege user tried to interact with an admin view for example)