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Is there an advantage to using WCF or WebAPI for mobile?

I’m looking at doing my first mobile development using Mono Touch and Mono for Android. I’d like them to communicate with an ASP.NET MVC 4 site I’m designing. I’ve worked with WCF and WebAPI in the past but I’m wondering if there are any quantifiable advantages to using one over the other in this context?

Ria service security

I have a silverlight app that connects to a entity framework over WCF ria service.

Are Request/Response Parameter Wrappers Good Practice?

I’ve seen several different ways to design WCF services, and it seems some developers prefer parameter wrappers while others favor ‘naked’ parameters. To explain what I mean, consider the following service interfaces:

Does Silverlight5 provide anything new for WCF

From WCF standpoint, just wondering whether I can leverage anything after upgrade from Silverlight 4 to Silverlight 5? I did some research regarding new features of SL5 and cannot find anything about changes to System.ServiceModel and System.ServiceModel.Web namespaces, is it rigth that nothing were added or am I missing something?