offline first for bad networks: what a delivery rider app taught us
last year we rebuilt the rider app for a logistics client (react native this time, the client already had a RN team). riders move between areas where network is good, then 2G, then nothing, then a filling station wifi that says "connected" but nothing loads. the old app treated network as always on and riders were losing deliveries, double submitting, and calling dispatch to confirm everything manually here's what…