appsheet & consumed DATA

[astroboy1970]

Hi,

I am worried about the consumed data downloading images  on the phone.

I have 2 questions:

1) Example I have a view that shows 50 records with images. All the 50 images will be downloaded in the phone or are downloades by demmand?.

2) the downloaded images have a FOLDER in an Android Phone ?. I tried to find it but I couldn't.

Thanks!!.

[WillowMobileSys]

In a nutshell, generally YES the images are downloaded to the device for quicker access and NO they are not stored in a specific device folder.  This does depend a lot on the settings within your app. 

To help, it would be best to review a few articles.  Each gives a slightly different perspective on how images are handled for an app with respect to a mobile device.  There are other articles as well you can search for.

https://support.google.com/appsheet/answer/10108551?hl=en&ref_topic=10104486

https://support.google.com/appsheet/answer/10107317?hl=en

https://support.google.com/appsheet/answer/10106529?hl=en

https://support.google.com/appsheet/answer/10107724?hl=en

[astroboy1970]

Hi,

I read the 4 articles and are very useful, but I am not sure about where are the images on my android phone.

On my app I am using this setting: Behavior ->Offline/Sync ->"Store content for offline use=on"

I tried to find the image folder in my phone. If I want to share some image via whatsapp I could take the screenshoot buy it will not have the best original resolution.

[WillowMobileSys]

I am not 100% certain how app definitions versus app data is stored on a mobile device.  I do know that your app images are not downloaded and made available to you or your device through other software such as some Folder system or a photos app.  I am not aware of a way to "download" an image for access on the device itself from other device software.

Images are stored within the cloud based data service you are using in your app and you can make that storage location publicly shared then provide a link to it for users to gain access to the images.

As another option, If you want the ability to send images uploaded into the app via another app such as whatsapp, the best approach is to build that as a feature into your app.  For example create a button that when tapped allows a user to select the image they want to send and who to send it to.  The app then does the work to send the image through whatsapp with no need to leave the app.

[astroboy1970]

thanks for your time , I will ask soon a similar question . I need to understand what happen  with internet data & phone disc storage. Imagine a real situation 50 images per day taken by the employees ...100Mb per day. In one month 3Gb !!.  😱

[WillowMobileSys]

If your concern is data usage charges, it won't matter WHERE the images are stored on the device.  The fact that all those images are brought down to the device will incur data charges. 

In this case, you would want to build your app to limit the number of images loaded. 

You had asked if the images are brought down on demand - i.e. only when needed.   You didn't ask if you could control the images loaded.  In AppSheet you can do just that ... what images and how many are brought down to each device through the use of Security Filters. 

[astroboy1970]

Hi,

For me the images are very import because these are the result of inspections on different places every day.

Actually we are using a whatsapp group. In whatsapp I have a folder in my phone and when the folder space has more than 2Gb , I could delete the old images.  In this case, the folder matter for me. 

Independently of the work and the image origin, the image space will grow and I could need to delete old images in the phone.