Making the setup less painful
Technically, we've enabled offline synchronization between devices, but our approach is littered with caveats:
Offline syncing only works over Wi-Fi
Requires a laptop to perform synchronization
Involves a manual setup of a separate CouchDB database, a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connection, and static IP addresses
Cannot sync two mobile devices together (unless syncing through a laptop)
Have to edit the source code to switch to offline mode
A lot of these reasons are due to technical constraints. Let's go through each point and understand what the ideal solution would be, whether possible today or not. There's a huge opportunity for mobile device manufacturers to improve the current state of offline synchronization in a platform-independent way.
Multiprotocol sync
What if any of the wireless protocols on your phone could be used to sync with other phones? Apps could choose the right one based on the security, energy, and performance requirements of the application, and synchronization...
