Explanations

Working offline and syncing

FARMIS is built for places where mobile data is patchy or expensive. Most reference content keeps working once it has been loaded once. This page explains exactly which parts work offline and how the app syncs when you're back online.

What works offline

Once these have been opened or saved, they continue to work without internet:

Crop guides you've opened or saved to your farm.
Pests & diseases entries you've opened or bookmarked.
News articles you've saved.
Calculators and other reference content.

This means you can do a planning session at home on Wi-Fi, then take the phone to the garden and still have the information you need.

What always needs internet

Some features depend on live data and can't work without a connection:

Sign-up and sign-in — the SMS verification step.
Live market prices — these come from a server feed each day.
Weather forecasts — both today's and the 7-day view.
Posting and reading new forum content — though previously-loaded threads stay in your history.
Placing orders for farm inputs — these go through to suppliers in real time.

How syncing works

When you regain internet:

The app refreshes weather, prices, and the forum.
Any forum post you drafted while offline is sent when the app next has connectivity. You don't have to do anything.
Bookmarked content checks for a newer version and updates if there is one.

You don't have to manually "sync". The app does it in the background, usually within seconds of connectivity returning.

Saving more for offline use

To stretch your offline coverage:

Before going to the garden, open the crop page you'll need and tap Save.
Browse the pests likely to affect your crop and bookmark those entries too.
If you read News, save the articles you want to come back to.

Saved content takes a small amount of phone storage. The app will warn you if you're running low.

When data is genuinely too expensive

If mobile data is precious, you can:

Do most of your reading and downloading on Wi-Fi (for example at a town centre or relative's house).
Avoid reloading the same screens repeatedly when offline doesn't matter — bookmark instead.
Skip the weather screen when you only need it occasionally; today's high-level summary appears on the Dashboard.

What works offline

Once these have been opened or saved, they continue to work without internet:

Crop guides you've opened or saved to your farm.

Pests & diseases entries you've opened or bookmarked.

News articles you've saved.

Calculators and other reference content.

This means you can do a planning session at home on Wi-Fi, then take the phone to the garden and still have the information you need.

What always needs internet

Some features depend on live data and can't work without a connection:

Sign-up and sign-in — the SMS verification step.

Live market prices — these come from a server feed each day.

Weather forecasts — both today's and the 7-day view.

Posting and reading new forum content — though previously-loaded threads stay in your history.

Placing orders for farm inputs — these go through to suppliers in real time.

How syncing works

When you regain internet:

The app refreshes weather, prices, and the forum.

Any forum post you drafted while offline is sent when the app next has connectivity. You don't have to do anything.

Bookmarked content checks for a newer version and updates if there is one.

You don't have to manually "sync". The app does it in the background, usually within seconds of connectivity returning.

Saving more for offline use

To stretch your offline coverage:

Before going to the garden, open the crop page you'll need and tap Save.

Browse the pests likely to affect your crop and bookmark those entries too.

If you read News, save the articles you want to come back to.

Saved content takes a small amount of phone storage. The app will warn you if you're running low.

When data is genuinely too expensive

If mobile data is precious, you can:

Do most of your reading and downloading on Wi-Fi (for example at a town centre or relative's house).

Avoid reloading the same screens repeatedly when offline doesn't matter — bookmark instead.

Skip the weather screen when you only need it occasionally; today's high-level summary appears on the Dashboard.