Author name: Carla Locke

One of the critical concerns for anyone dealing with Offline Synchronization is scaling. How much data can you download and how fast? The scope and complexity of the problem quickly escalates if you are dealing with mobile devices as the offline store. It is very typical for our enterprise customers to have large amounts of data and they expect the users to have access to this without interruption no matter whether they are online or offline. Our internal tests proved that the algorithm scales really well but we also had a chance to measure real sync times from some of our customers with real world scenarios (people with spotty 3G connection to robust WiFi times). We decided to publish some of those numbers since they are very very impressive!

Forgive us for being a little too geeky with this post but this has been a sticky issue that caused a lot of heartburn with our engineering team lately, so we have decided to share what we found. And to reinforce that old notion, there is light at the end of that coding tunnel after all! First, a refresher. Our Pulsar for Salesforce mobile offline app has been available on Android and Windows app stores for a few months now. We used Xamarin platform to develop the app, so that it would run natively on both platforms. The language of choice for this environment is C# but we were able to reuse the core pieces of our dev work on the iOS app in the form of C++ dynamic libraries.

Pulsar provides an easy way to control the home page look and feel, so it conforms to your company’s branding standards. You can upload a background image with your company logo and also change the Tool and Navigation Bar colors to your company’s choice colors.