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How to Build Offline Apps with Image Capture

Offline mobile apps are critical for today's remote workforce.Offline Apps Webinar:

How to Build Offline Apps that Can Capture and Store Images

Offline apps are a must for mobile enterprise. Alpha Anywhere makes it easy to add offline access in web and mobile apps. Built-in offline data caching allows users to continue to use mobile web apps when the device is disconnected. Data that is captured or entered while the user is working offline is stored on the mobile device until the device can be connected to a network again. We have created a webinar to teach you some of the basics for creating offline capable apps.

A Step by Step Tutorial on How to Build Offline Apps

Presented by: Dion McCormick Lead Solutions Engineer Overview: Lead Solutions Engineer, Dion McCormick shows you step-by-step how to build a mobile application capable of taking and storing images when the device is disconnected from phone service and WiFi - and then how those images can be resynched with an database online when signal is restored. Watch this webinar to learn more about offline image capture.     infoworld-techtarget-quotes-2 (1)

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About Author

Richard Rabins
Richard Rabins

Co-founder of Alpha Software, Richard Rabins focuses on strategy, sales, and marketing. Richard also served as CEO of SoftQuad International from 1997 to 2001, when it owned Alpha. In addition to his 30 years with the company, Richard played a key role as co-founder, and served as president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council (now the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council), the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts. Prior to founding Alpha, Richard was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc. Richard holds a master's degree in system dynamics from the Sloan School at MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and master's degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served on the boards of Silent Systems, Legacy Technology and O3B Networks, and is co-founder of Tubifi www.tubifi.com.


The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

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