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artmem
artmem

Reputation: 367

What is the best high-capacity local storage option for a web app?

I'm building a web app using jquery mobile that will have lots of images that need to be cached for offline access, and I'm looking for the best way to accomplish this.

I originally was just going to create a cache manifest file for the images, but there are too many, and they exceed the size limit. I also considered Indexeddb, but it doesn't seem to have much support yet.

The solution needs to work for both Android and iOS and also be accessible in a web browser. Total storage capacity will probably need to be around 15-20 MB. Is there a good option for this?

Also, I don't have much experience with web apps, so any examples you could provide would be great.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 866

Answers (2)

MarkGr
MarkGr

Reputation: 1068

The web sql database (sqlite) will give you 50MB local storage and works in Android and iOS http://www.html5rocks.com/en/features/storage There is a nice library that simplifies access to sqlite here https://github.com/jhubert/javascript-sqlite

Upvotes: 1

Grim...
Grim...

Reputation: 16953

I don't think there is any good solution for this. Even if you use and combine multiple storage methods (including the standard browser cache) you still won't get near to 15MB.

I fear this is going to come down to a choice between a dedicated app, and not storing the images locally.

Upvotes: 1

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