HTML Archive - History / save

szymon247

Hello! I was just wondering if the HTML archive activity has built in history, so I could implement some simple "Save" function in javascript for my games, personal leaderboard and some variables saved so a user doesn't start from scratch after he closes the app. It works in pretty much all browsers so I wasn't sure why wouldn't it, but wanted to double check before I put in the work.

Thanks!

szymon247

Let me rephrase the question, maybe Does the HTML activity allow for keeping cookies or browser states, or does it not enable them/ clean them upon app restart? I can take advantage of save/load states with the use of cookies, but I was wondering if the Andromo HTML Archive activity supports those.

Insplisity

It's best to ask the developers. @darryl or @lorne should be able to answer that question for you.

szymon247

Thanks @hendrixs.

In the meantime I found this stating that (and why) in 2014 it might have not actually been viable in Andromo: https://forums.andromo.com/discussion/996/how-to-incrementsave-a-variable-in-html-activity
If that is still the case, the api level >21 apparently supports cookies in the Android WebView now - I stumbled upon this link which might be helpful for the Andromo team: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33998688/webview-cannot-accept-cookies

That is not only a great thing for games, but for pretty much all html activities.

The original link also mentioned Andromo was looking into other alternatives to local storage. If localstorage/keeping cookies still doesn't work, is there any workaround?

colinadams

You should be able to use HTML5 localstorage just fine... it was enabled some time ago in Andromo's webview based activities. Note that it is restricted to a per-activity basis, meaning you can't access data across activities.

szymon247

@colinadams Thanks a lot! One last thing - does the html archive activity also store cookies?

meoldTest

Yes cookies are enabled as well.

szymon247

Thanks a lot! All questions answered :-)