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Turbocharge Your Mobile App: Caching

by Moderator on ‎01.03.2013 11:48 AM
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Did you know that your application is not caching images by default? Web developers are used to the browser doing it for you.  However, in mobile – you have to explicitly turn on caching in your application. In a recent study, AT&T Labs found that 17% of all mobile content consumed was downloaded in a duplicate manner.

 

In this brief summary, I'll discuss the basics behind adding caching to your mobile app.

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Is Your Mobile App Caching Properly?

by Administrator on ‎07.13.2012 02:32 PM - last edited on ‎07.13.2012 04:49 PM by Administrator

ARO.pngBelieve it or not, even a 4kb image can make a huge difference. Let's say your app has 5,000 users (congrats, by the way). If they have to download a single 4kb image twice each session, it means 19MB of needless data sent to your users. And that means using the radio power to drain more than a third of a Samsung Captivate(tm) battery.

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