Servoy Webclient over 3g

Classic Servoy
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I am having significant speed issues with Servoy over 3g using an iPhone. Other sites do not seem to be a problem and I am wondering what Servoy is doing whilst its loading what is in fact a relatively simple application. Even on the WiFi the app is not blindingly fast with graphics loading in a peculiar way or incomplete.

The application I have developed relies heavily on remote working and 3g networks - these are by no means perfect, but I would have expected at least similar performance to a standard web experience. I guess my questions are

  • Are there ways to optimise Servoy for mobile use over the web
  • Is it likely that the Ajax elements a chatting up and down the network hence slowing the process down
  • Has anyone got any experience of actually delivering a live iPhone app to a significant audience ie 3-500 users ? this is slow with 1 currently !

Finally the fact that Servoy can deliver web forms, a desktop client and an iPhone based administration from one code base is outstanding !!

Keen to hear any ideas on what I may have overlooked to ramp up this performance - ideally I want to keep all of this in Servoy and not resort to JQuery or similar

Cheers
Gordon

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How fast is the sample crm at demo.servoy.com for you? On my 3G phone it loads in about 4 seconds which I think is pretty spiffy. For your own app it will largely depend on the GUI complexity. Keeping your GUI simpler makes it faster.

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OK Interesting I came to a similar conclusion and did various tests with other apps both locally and on 3g. It may also have a lot to do with the fact the iPhone is telling fibs about its current connection status.

Actions taken so far:

  1. Stuck a loading page on the front before the startup script registers the various functions and plugings
  2. I wanted the app to load from the homescreen and to enable this to work has to fire the client each time IF it were possible to create a homescreen icon from Servoy without the session this would mean we went back to the same client hence it would be running and faster - IF you can make this work I would be very interested to know how as my version requires intervention from PHP !!
  3. Using apple type interface with small graphics - some loading issues but not vast

Cheers
Gordon