Interesting. I'd like to see more about this. Are you planning a blog post? If not - I'd suggest it. :)
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Ian Clelland <[email protected]> wrote: > For the most part, this allows developers who are already using Service > Worker to create offline-enabled web apps to use the same code, and the > same coding style, with Cordova apps. > > Service Worker is currently available only in Chrome (and Opera, by its > Blink heritage), but as a W3C effort, I'm hoping that it will gain momentum > on the web as a far better method of handling the offline state than, say, > AppCache. I'd love to see developers start to think of this as the right > way to handle offline apps, and it's only a short step from there to using > the same techniques for hybrid apps. > > (And hopefully, as support grows within the various platform webviews, a > plugin like this can shrink until eventually Cordova apps can just *use* > the native implementation) > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Raymond Camden <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Can you comment as to why you would use this as opposed to the network API? >> >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Ian Clelland <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > It's a bit late for an announcement, since we actually published this a >> > couple of weeks ago, but Google's Cordova team has built a Service Worker >> > plugin for iOS Cordova apps. >> > >> > It's npm-published exclusively, so you can finally install this without >> > cloning the repo, so maybe that makes this a good time to publicize it ;) >> > >> > This means that you can use all of the Service Worker APIs (Cache, Fetch, >> > etc) that you would use to make an offline web app -- including updating >> > your app assets from the network -- and build a Cordova app the same way. >> > >> > The plugin is an extendable platform, as well, so we hope to publish some >> > other APIs on top of it (geofencing, push, background sync) fairly soon. >> > >> > https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-service-worker >> >> >> >> -- >> =========================================================================== >> Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM >> >> Email : [email protected] >> Blog : www.raymondcamden.com >> Twitter: raymondcamden >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> -- =========================================================================== Raymond Camden, Developer Advocate for MobileFirst at IBM Email : [email protected] Blog : www.raymondcamden.com Twitter: raymondcamden --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
