There is no app, and there is not going to be one.
Everything here runs in a browser: the dashboard, the wallet, the check-in, the camera features and the notifications. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like an app, without any of us having to maintain two of them.
What works on a phone, and how.
| Feature | How it runs | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| The dashboard and the wallet | A web page | Nothing |
| Checking in | A web page asking for your position once | Location permission, granted per visit |
| Push notifications | Web push | Notification permission, asked after your first order |
| Pointing your phone at a field | Camera and compass in the browser | Camera permission, and daylight |
| Scanning a label | Your ordinary camera app | Nothing at all. It is a web address |
| Working offline | A cached copy of the last dashboard you saw | Having loaded it once |
| Adding it to the home screen | A manifest and an icon | Two taps in the browser menu |
What happens with no signal.
Most of this farm has patchy coverage and the shop has a stone building between the counter and the sky. An account screen that is blank without a connection is useless in exactly the place people most want it.
So the last dashboard you loaded is cached and shown, with the time it was taken written across the top of it rather than implied. The wallet shows the last known balance the same way. Check-in queues and fires when there is signal again, which is why a check-in occasionally lands twenty minutes after you left.
Nothing pretends to be live when it is not. A stale number with a timestamp on it is useful; a stale number without one is a lie.
Adding it to a home screen.
Open the dashboard
Signed in, so that the cached copy is worth having.
Use the browser share or menu button
Then Add to Home Screen. It is two taps on both of the phones anybody has.
It gets an icon and a name
The cockerel, and the word Surveying.
It opens without browser furniture
Full screen, its own window, and its own history.
Delete it like anything else
It is a bookmark with ambition. Removing it removes nothing else.
What you get
- The whole dashboard, offline, with a timestamp
- Push notifications, if you allow them
- Checking in, queued when there is no signal
- The camera features, in daylight
- The scanner, through any camera app
What you very much do not
- An app store listing
- Anything running in the background
- Any access to your contacts, photographs or microphone
- Location tracking between visits
- A second thing to keep updated
On a phone, questioned.
Because everything an app would do here, a web page already does, and the only genuine gain is a marginally better camera pipeline. Two app stores is a large price for that.
No. Location is asked for at the moment you press check in and discarded immediately afterwards. There is nothing running when the page is closed.
On anything current, yes. It is asked for after your first order rather than on arrival, which is why the permission actually gets granted.
The dashboard and the wallet do, from cache, with the time on them. The cameras do not, for obvious reasons.
Everything on one screen.
The dashboard, the wallet, the year and the board.
Elsewhere on the estate.
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