Read this before a flight. The short version is that ClapDiet needs a
connection, and logging without one does not work.
Do not log without a connection
A meal, a glass of water or a weight saved with no signal is not saved. Itis not queued, it is not held on the phone, and it does not upload later. The
save fails and the entry is gone.
There is no offline write queue in ClapDiet. We would rather tell you that than
have you log a day of meals on a plane and land to find them missing.
If you are going to be offline, note what you ate somewhere else — your phone's
notes app is fine — and enter it when you are back.
What you can still see
Three screens keep a copy of what they last showed you, for 24 hours:
Open one of them with no connection and it shows you that copy rather than an
error. Everything else on the screen behaves normally, which means anything
needing fresh data will not load.
The rest of the app — the food database, your labs, your plan, insights,
settings — needs a connection every time.
The app does not know it is offline
There is no offline banner, no cloud-with-a-line icon and no offline mode to
switch into. ClapDiet cannot currently detect that your connection has dropped:
it tries, waits, and shows you an error or an empty screen.
That is why the advice above is about what you do rather than what the app
does. A screen that fails to load with no explanation is almost always this.
When you are back online
Nothing happens automatically, because nothing was waiting. Pull down to refresh
the screen you are on, or leave and come back to it, and it loads normally
again.
Preparing for time offline
There is nothing to download by hand, and no setting to turn on. What genuinely
helps:
connection, if you want to be able to look at them later
largest transfers
In a poor signal area
Slow is different from absent. On a weak connection screens will load, just
slowly, and saving works — it may simply take a few seconds. ClapDiet retries a
failed request twice before giving up, so a brief dropout often resolves itself
without you noticing.
What we would like this to be
An offline log queue is the missing piece, and we know it. Until it exists, the
honest guidance is the guidance above.
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