What exactly is triggering online/offline events? about cordova-plugin-network-information

[powysm]

@rolinger did you manage to get anywhere with this.
This sounds pretty much exactly what some iOS users are reporting on our app.
The only way i can recreate similar is to be connected to a wifi point w/o internet access.

I was considering treating an ios device as disconnected on app start up until it has an online event that isn't of type unknown or none, or testing this value on a timer on startup.

[rolinger]

@powysm - We changed many things. In fact we completely rewrote how our app initializes, greatly simplifying it and eliminating almost all outside dependencies during start up. We use google's places/autocomplete for typing in city/town names - so this loads way before onDeviceReady() fires. If the google maps api fails to load, the call back is never called, thus something must be wrong with the internet connection. The onDeviceReady() function then looks to see if the a maps global variable is to true or false (online/offline). If true, carry on, if false, pop warning message to user and then do a deeper dive into finding out why. Since we moved to this method we have no more reports of "offline" app hanging on launch:

<script async defer 
      src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=api_key&amp;libraries=places&callback=mapsCallback" type="text/javascript">
</script>