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What is the process to setting a web app to cache on the mobile device for offline access?
The app is easily readable via the Test Center link; also when files are uploaded to a server location.
Nowthen, how do we cache the app on the mobile device so it can be read/accessed when no internet connection is available?
Thanks in advance for help with this question.
In the properties of the main screen for your app click on the ‘Start up screen’ check box. This will enable a few new selections a little below it. On of them is ‘Offline Support’. Make sure this says ‘AppCache Support’.
That’s where the little bugger is!
Thank you for pointing that out to a squint-eyed blind man.
We will give it a hearty test later today.
Regards.
P.S. Still hoping for a WYSIWYG editor in an upcoming version.
No problem. It is a little hard to find. Yeah that would be good. I currently use dreamweaver and just copy my code into a html widget, works pretty well.
Have you had any success with caching a web app to a device and accessing it w/o any wifi or internet connection?
hi Herb
I host my own web apps and I use the fact that a internet connection is not required as a selling point. The mobile internet here in Australia is not that great but 4G will be here soon I guess. In the meantime the app cache does work.Well, sounds like success is possible with the web app caching.
Any hidden secrets?
Is the process an upload to a server hosting location, then have the device user go there via Safari, then bookmark it, or is there another process to follow?
We need to have these web apps accessible to internal company folks only, and we really don’t want to go through the Apple gymnastics if we do not need to.
Also, if you update the web app, does the client get a download next time they open the app?
Please share the inner details with me.
Yes it is an upload to server location, yes users will go there to download, not so much a ‘bookmark’ more ‘add icon to home screen’ once installed user can open app without internet connection. If you make any changes to the app and upload those changes to your server the app will update when user starts app. My apps are quite small in size (less than 5mb) I have no experience with apps larger than this.
Let us know how you get on.
Good Luck!Thanks.
My “how to” assumptions were correct.
Will test that out over the weekend and let you know how it goes/went.
Regards and appreciation.
Just got the app to run/display pages correctly.
We kept getting blank white screens on some even tho the debugger didn’t show and coding errors.
We solved the problem by putting a “add files” screen attached to the start screen that had links within it to the screens that wouldn’t play nice.
Now, all screens are firing up properly.
App Caching is next on my list of “get it done” tasks.
Thanks for you help and support. Really appreciate it on this end.
