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Collecting field data with no network: from native to hybrid
- works with no connection
- offline
- iOS and Android, one codebase
- 2 platforms
- managed by corporate IT
- MDM
The challenge
Inspectors work where there is no network: a workshop, a construction site, an empty flat before handover. The old native version had aged along with its interface, and maintaining a separate codebase per platform was expensive. Meanwhile the security requirements had not gone anywhere — the device must stay under corporate management.
What we did
Rewritten from native to hybrid
A new interface for both platforms from a single codebase.
Fully offline
Forms, lookups, translations and answers live in a local database on the device. Filling a form does not depend on connectivity at all.
Synchronisation with progress
Data is pushed in separate queues, the user sees exactly what is uploading, and an interrupted session resumes from where it stopped.
Everything the field needs
Camera photos, a finger signature, QR scanning, geo-stamps, attachments and lookups.
An in-app dashboard
Reports sent, reports still open, and the trend by day, week and month.
Corporate device management
The app runs inside a mobile device management system, so corporate IT controls access centrally.
The result
Paper is gone from the field cycle: data reaches the system the same day, with photos, a signature and the coordinates of the spot where it was collected.
