[SriniK]

You can think it as a cross platform networking library.

From the post.

"Low-level networking improvements like HTTP/2, QUIC, QUIC to TCP failover, gRPC, DNS replacements, push/streaming, observability, analytics, state of the art TLS, retry and timeout policies, etc. take a tremendous amount of effort both to implement robustly as well as to make consistent across all of the Android and iOS versions in common use. Envoy Mobile will provide all of this functionality in a consistent cross-platform manner, especially when paired with Envoy running at the edge, similar to how server-side Envoy provides consistency to polyglot distributed application architectures."

[blaisio]

Yeah I think the idea is, envoy helps a lot on the server side, but the client side uses almost the exact same algorithms, so we ought to have something like envoy on the client side too.

[bndw]

Put another way-- it extends the service mesh to mobile clients.

[graphememes]

It's an API client.