F8: No Internet Connection? Parse Local Datastore Has Your Apps Covered

Applications that work offline? Why not? Parse announced the launch of Parse Local Datastore -- a new feature in its software-development kit that allows developers to add a few lines of code to their apps so that they can function without Internet connections -- at Facebook’s F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday.

ParseLocalDatastore650Applications that work offline? Why not? Parse announced the launch of Parse Local Datastore — a new feature in its software-development kit that allows developers to add a few lines of code to their apps so that they can function without Internet connections — at Facebook’s F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday.

Parse said in a blog post by Software Engineer Grantland Chew announcing the feature:

How many times have you opened an app and stared at a loading screen for minutes, only to be confronted with the dreaded, “No Internet connection?” Most mobile apps are simply clients that display data straight from a server, losing all functionality without an Internet connection.

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