Chapter 8. Taking your Application Offline

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Detecting offline mode
  • Storing your data offline
  • Storing your images offline
  • Application caching

Introduction

When it comes to building mobile applications, there is one special case that is different to the mobile application from today's desktop applications—offline mode or the flight mode . However, this offline mode has been there on desktop applications for some time, where we had intermittent or slow network connections. However, they are now more common to the mobile world. This mode means the mobile is not on the network and does not have access to the WLAN or GPRS data connection.

There are several cases where it is necessary for an application to have an offline presence. ...

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