How can I load content files to the device?

You can use the Load ZIP File button in Remote Admin and Fully Cloud to download and unpack a ZIP file to local device storage. By default the app-specific storage will be used to unpack files if the device is in scoped storage mode. Otherwise shared storage will be used. When using File Manager in Remote Admin you can unpack to any storage (with respect of access permissions).

In order to use this feature you have to put the ZIP file on some web server where it can be accessed by the device and provide the HTTP/HTTPS URL. For ZIP files up to 100 MB you can use the File Storage in Fully Cloud. If you need a bigger storage please use your own web storage. Please note that ZIP file download currently can’t work properly with files on Google Drive as Google Drive doesn’t provide Last-Modified time. If you don’t have your own webserver we recommend using Dropbox for bigger ZIP file hosting. The download URL must then look like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k7xdrtk8ujvqyf0/archiv.zip?dl=1

This is the way to make a light local content management. You can create subfolders within the ZIP file that will be used during extraction. Use with care as all existing files will be overwritten when unpacking the same file paths from the ZIP file. Avoid non-latin letters in the packed file/folder names or make sure the packer is using UTF-8 encoding. When using this feature from Fully Cloud you can load ZIP file to many devices with only one click (mass admin). You can set the File Load Timeframe in Cloud Settings in order to randomize the file loading across devices within the specified timeframe (next x seconds).

You can force unneeded files to be deleted when unpacking if you put files of zero size in the ZIP file. Zero size files will be not extracted but deleted from device. You can also put a file .delete into ZIP archive containing the list of files and folders to remove before unzipping. So you can update the whole folder content and don’t care about filenames. Sample ZIP file is here.

You can use the Load Content From ZIP File option in Device Management settings in order to download and unzip file from some URL automatically. Fully Kiosk will check each hour for updates on this URLs (according to servers Last-Modified HTTP response header). On the first app start the ZIP file will be downloaded prior to loading the Start URL. Use Auto-Reload on Idle option to reload the Start URL when device is not in use in order the updated local files can take effect.

You can see the results of long running download commands in Fully Log on the Remote Admin. We recommend enabling the maintenance mode during changing content files on the devices.

You can also use the JavaScript API to silently download/unpack files, list files, delete files or folders from your website.

Of course you can also use some other file sync app to sync local files with remote storage. However you likely can’t install/configure that app automatically like Fully Kiosk.