Offline-provisioning and Synchronization of Content for Mobile Webapps

Tim A. Majchrzak, Timo Hillmann

2015

Abstract

Despite progress in the development of cross-platform frameworks, today’s apps often are realized either as native apps or as Webapps. The latter are easy to implement and rely on robust and future-proof technologies such as HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript. However, Webapps commonly require a stable Internet connection. Recent developments facilitate offline-enabled Webapps. If an app is able to store data locally, it should also be enabled to synchronize with a server backend. We assess current HTML5 storage capabilities and discuss their possibilities along with considerations of mobile computing synchronization strategies. Our work includes the compilation of requirements that Webapps have regarding their offline capabilities. Moreover, we discuss the status quo of offline storage and give an outlook based on a proof-of-concept implementation.

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A. Majchrzak T. and Hillmann T. (2015). Offline-provisioning and Synchronization of Content for Mobile Webapps . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-106-9, pages 601-612. DOI: 10.5220/0005423206010612


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@conference{webist15,
author={Tim A. Majchrzak and Timo Hillmann},
title={Offline-provisioning and Synchronization of Content for Mobile Webapps},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2015},
pages={601-612},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005423206010612},
isbn={978-989-758-106-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Offline-provisioning and Synchronization of Content for Mobile Webapps
SN - 978-989-758-106-9
AU - A. Majchrzak T.
AU - Hillmann T.
PY - 2015
SP - 601
EP - 612
DO - 10.5220/0005423206010612