Offline First: mobile Syncing with Couchbase Lite Android

[awasum....@skylabase.com]

We have a need to provide our clients with offline field operations android apps so that they can server customers in internet constraint environment.

Basically, we have a backend which consumes and produces JSON using normal REST request response models. Now our mobile clients need to will consume this APIs and provide empoyees with capabilities to serve customers.

The need comes for doing offline transactions on the mobile devices and then later syncing all the transactions and offline data collected in the field with the backend REST API.

How do you think we should approach this given that we need this information to be consistent across all the devices?

Thanks very much and waiting for a reply.

[Hod Greeley]

What's a typical scenario?  

From what you've written I'm imagining you might want forms driven by data for field ops people need to fill in while with a customer.  In that case, you might do something like build a server-side piece that adds/updates the form specification to Couchbase.  That would get synced to the mobile app.  When connecting back with customer data, have the app sync back.  The data can get pulled straight from Couchbase Server with N1QL queries.

Hod