Yes, my file-based method is purely to avoid needing to run a server at all (because it's really cheap just to host files on, say, Amazon S3) but if you run your own servers anyway then it's a much neater solution to have a simple API to tell you which images you need to download and where to get them from. The usual pattern here is for the app to store the date of the last time it refreshed it's local cache and send this to the server every time it starts up to find out if it needs to download any updates. This way you can use server side timestamps for everything and avoid the problem of device time skew.
Mark ________________________________ From: Matthias Rebbe <matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Thursday, 6 June 2013, 11:31 Subject: Re: mobile image gallery / slider - web or standalone based? Mark, thank your for your thoughts. I think i will let livecode download the images to store and chache them directly. I could let my livecode app "communicate" with an LiveCode server script to get information about modification dates. Regards, Matthias _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
