How exactly the app behaves as webapp with refreshing new data?

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Hi,
I built a SaaS app with Glide and I am trying to understand the behavior from the user’s sight.
The app is configured to save cookies so the users will not need to log in each time with mail.

So my users are opening the app few times during the day, then automatically sees their first personal page.

  1. How do I know if the see the new information for today, or the old information from the past? (hour ago / 10 hours ago / yesterday).

  2. When is the new information updated? its a webapp ,so it does not refresh each time the user open/closed the app, right?

Sometimes they come back after a day and still does not see the new information.
then after 5 minutes of usage suddenly the app log out and ask them to log in again.

  1. If I will configure the app not to save cookies, when does the app “log out”? since it is a webapp each time they leave the app does not count as log out.

Thanks.

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Usually within 1 to 3 seconds. It updates in real time. This isn’t a standard web page. It actually has a back end communication channel. If data isn’t updating instantly, then that’s probably more of a bad connection issue.

They are logged out when the app is closed. Not moved to the background, but actually closed.

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Thank you, What do you mean by ‘CLOSE’?
When the user taps HOME in their phone , the app still runs BUT not being updated.
If the user re open the app after X time (1min to 24 hours, don’t know why) sometime the users sees ‘a spinning circle’ and the app actually launches from the beginning.
and sometime the circle does not appear and the user is continue where he just left.

What is the meaning of all this?

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Apps usually continue to run in memory if you minimize the app or switch to a different app. By “close” I mean close the app where it is removed completely from memory. For me that means bringing up a list of all running apps and swiping away an app to close it. For others it may mean bringing up a list of running apps and clicking on an ‘X’. Just depends on how you do it on your particular device.

Sometimes the OS will unload the app from memory. When you open the app again, it will either continue where you left off or reload it from the beginning.

Sometimes the app keeps running in the background. Sometimes it doesn’t. All depends on how your device likes to manage it’s memory. If it needs to free up some memory, then it will shut down running apps if they aren’t currently being used.

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