Need help figuring out offline capabilities for web app/iPad
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Britannia Petite posted this in #help-forum
Britannia PetiteOP
Hello all,
I have been tasked with creating a web app that can work offline similar to google docs. The concept is for pairing students and instructors together and issuing lessons. Lessons need to be able to be recorded while offline, and then uploaded when connection is regained so that they can be stored in the database.
How would I go about implementing something like this, are there existing libraries or has anyone worked on something like this before that can shed some light on the process?
Ideally it would need to work on an iPad in airplane mode, but im not sure if that would require a native app or if the web app would still work
I have been tasked with creating a web app that can work offline similar to google docs. The concept is for pairing students and instructors together and issuing lessons. Lessons need to be able to be recorded while offline, and then uploaded when connection is regained so that they can be stored in the database.
How would I go about implementing something like this, are there existing libraries or has anyone worked on something like this before that can shed some light on the process?
Ideally it would need to work on an iPad in airplane mode, but im not sure if that would require a native app or if the web app would still work
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I am not sure but for a web app to do this, you need PWA capabilities
it is much easier on a native app because well you can use smth like sqlite(or similar) to cache data and recording can be done without any external plugins now a days on devices
Britannia PetiteOP
yeahhhhh we currently have a native app but theres no support for it and its a buggy mess and has wayy too much bloat
so i offered my web dev skills to take a crack at a minimum viable concept version of it to make it a web app instead
bc i am a lot more comfortable managing web apps than I am native iOS
but ive never worked on a PWA so this is exciting
iirc PWAs can cache assets and show then when offline but I am not sure about screen recording things