Coming Soon: Offline Web Apps

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Just wanted to inform the community whats cooking at OpenMobster. March is going to be an exciting month of development. The focus is going to be developing support for offline web apps.

To clarify: Web Apps are apps that are written using web technologies like HTML5, javascript and css. As such they are hybrid apps as they run as apps and not in the browser. This wrapping is provided by technologies like PhoneGap. So as a developer you pick web technologies like JQuery, Sencha Touch or straight up HTML5. Develop the web app and then deploy it as an app using PhoneGap.

Now, the Offline capability is then provided by the OpenMobster Sync service. You store the app data as MobileBeans in OpenMobster sync channels using the OpenMobster Javascript library. Once the channels are stored with Mobile Beans, they are automatically managed and synchronized with the Cloud. On the Cloud nothing changes except for developing your Java based Sync channels.

The OpenMobster Javascript library will be part of the development of the OpenMobster PhoneGap plugin.

This will be available in the next release 2.2-M8 on Android and 2.2-M9 on both Android and iOS.

Enjoy!!!
Sohil