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Where does a tap go in an offline-first Flutter app?

by Stacklyn Labs dev.to

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Picture a field worker in a basement with no signal. They fill in a long inspection form and tap Submit. In a cloud-first app, that tap starts a network request. The user watches a spinner, then an error, then fills the form in again later. In an offline-first app, four things happen instead. The four steps Instant write. The data goes straight to the on-device database. It is a local disk write,…

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