How LinkedIn WebView app effectively uses the local storage in mobile devices.

Excerpts from the article: http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-ipad-using-local-storage-snappy-mobile-apps

In short LinkedIn WebView application is designed bottom up to effectively use local storage.

• they used the local storage as persistent storage
• they reduced the number of network fetches by effectively using the local storage and using a stale time for a resource
• asynchronous network requests similar to AJAX running in background