Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Offline First Web Development

You're reading from   Offline First Web Development Design and build robust offline-first apps for exceptional user experience even when an internet connection is absent

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884573
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Daniel Sauble Daniel Sauble
Author Profile Icon Daniel Sauble
Daniel Sauble
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Pain of Being Offline FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a To-do App 3. Designing Online Behavior 4. Getting Online 5. Be Honest about What's Happening 6. Be Eventually Consistent 7. Choosing Intelligent Defaults 8. Networking While Offline 9. Testing and Measuring the UX A. References Index

Future improvements

We've come a long way, but we could take the experience even further. Let's talk about the current limitations of the app and some of the more complicated offline improvements that we've deferred until now.

Conflict resolution

Right now, the app can only resolve conflicts for the description of each to-do item. To do the same for maps and images, you'll need to implement a custom conflict resolution UI for each of these data types. This boils down to diff algorithms. You need a clear and efficient way to show the difference between an arbitrary number of different items. For text, this is relatively easy. For images and other binary data types, this is harder but not impossible. Search the Internet for image comparison algorithms if you're interested in learning more.

The cache size limits

At the moment, we cache everything. This is a trivial approach that works for our to-do app, but when you start dealing with large datasets, you'll need to...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image