App Developer Magazine Highlights Alpha's Solution for Offline Apps

Richard Rabins

Alpha Software

One of the hallmarks of good programming is anticipating everything that could possibly go wrong, and handling it in a graceful way. App Developer Magazine writer Martin Heller breaks down right and wrong strategies when building apps that will have intermittent connectivity and discusses how Alpha Anywhere presents a unique and innovative solution.

Mobile apps that fail to work when they don't have a connection aren't very mobile. Adding offline support to apps is necessary for your apps to be usable when a device is in offline mode. However, there are good strategies to add offline capability and there are bad. Don't get caught with an offline application that isn't usable. Read more about the right and wrong strategies for taking your app offline at App Developer Magazine

Work Offline with Alpha Anywhere

Alpha Anywhere is a platform for rapidly building mobile, web, and desktop applications. With support for built-in security, data integration, offline access, and more, you can quickly deploy apps that meet business app requirements. Learn more about Alpha Anywhere's offline features.

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About Author

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.