Offline Web Application HTML5 on Android

Question

I want to develop a HTML5 Web App. I read that in HTML5, you can use the new feature "Offline Web Applications" With the *.manifest file

I read an article from november 2010, that this feature only works on the iOS platform.

Does it work on Android now?

Answer 1

Yes. It works on Android as well as iOS and most desktop browsers. You don't need PhoneGap unless you want to access native features or deploy to the App store.

UPDATE:

Check out this chapter from Jonathan Stark's book: Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Answer 2

通常， http：//mobilehtml5.org/提供了很好的移动兼容性表来回答此问题和其他类似问题。

Answer 3

Yes it can. Here's an example for an offline game:

http://www.davidgranado.com/2010/11/make-a-set-mobile/

The one thing that sucks is that iOS generates a nice icon automatically. However, android doesn't. Also, I noticed that on random versions of android, it will display an error popup about the fact that it can't connect to the internet, but still runs fine after that.