[redlegrich]

OK, I’m not hip to the whole app scene. Once we complete an app here and post it will updates be available to the app user. For instance we want to use the app to deliver coupons to businesses. If we create a new coupon for say a promotion coming up will the app user have it updated to their phone.

Thanks.

[SonamGyato]

i’m just a user..but have am developing an app myself.

if this new coupon is put inside one of the pages – yes it will
be downloaded when the user has internet access.

my understanding of webapps is as follows.

when the app starts up, it checks for internet access – and if
it’s available, it checks all the files in the manifest and downloads
any new ones.

google appcache.

hope this helps.

[redlegrich]

OK, I figured that was the case. I use an Android and you have to accept the updated app which is no biggie. I hear the iPhone just does it which is even better.

Thanks for the comment everest.

[SonamGyato]

i tested this out…and it doesn’t seem to be true.

at least not always and not the first time the app should
update itself.

so wayne…some input required here.

i’ve got my app on my own server.

i uploaded just the custom.js file and it’s not being
downloaded.

it gets downloaded after i clear the emulator appcache.

[support-michael]

@everest

Apologies for the late response on this thread – I just missed it.

Here is probably why your resource is not being downloaded. When an HTML5 webapp configured to use the appcache (offline support) launches it checks the manifest file that defines all of the resources it should load to see if the manifest file has been modified since the last time it updated the cache. To be specific, the webapp will check the byte size of the Manifest file. So when you modify a resource in your offline app you need to also slightly modify the manifest file such as add a space or comment or something like that.

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