Offline availability of assets in a Phaser-powered mobile game?

[atomicg]

Hello, I'm developing a mobile game in phaser.io (and will wrap it in cocoon.js in future).

The game has levels that are unlocked through in-app purchases.

 

For each level, I plan to load the assets (images/sounds etc) through RESTful calls ,for example:

https://xyz.com/game/level1/resource/1.jpg

 

At the server level, for each REST call I will check whether the user has access privileges to the asset (ie has the user purchased the level) before serving the asset.

 

Here is my question:

Once the user has 'downloaded' a level's assets (using the technique described above) to his/her phone, I want the assets to be available to the user offline. In Phaser's AssetLoader, is the asset cached (in localstorage for ex) for future use?

 

Any other thoughts on this subject? 

 

[lewster32]

A similar question has been asked here: http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/8120-preload-heavy-file-from-localstorage-or-async-process-in-preload/

 

The 'proper' way to keep assets available when offline is through the use of the application cache and a manifest file. See this for an introduction to the process: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/appcache/beginner/