Offline library access

[adamhotep]

This is a request for a best-effort cache view of libraries on the remote app when not connected.

To me, the most important items are merely the lists; Movies, Music, and TV Shows (hopefully seasons if not episodes, but even just show names would help). This should have minimal storage requirements if you don't include images.

If that's too much of a request, just allowing the remote to open and provide whatever it has would be a start. I've opened it at home in the past and then brought it to the video store and had it fail to show me what it had clearly already loaded before. (I think I've seen it succeed on that too, and that it depends on whether the app tries to refresh any data, which would then result in finding it's not connected to Kodi, disabling all views.)

See also "view offline cache" and numerous .. other .. posts on the Kodi Remote for iOS Official Forum, including this comment in which joethefox wrote on 2013-01-14:

Offline Caching of Libraries isn't an easy task and has a low priority, but at the moment I haven't an internal db where the items are stored, everything is on demand to leave the things simple. But for the future could be a nice feature.