Install Swilly to the home screen
Installed Swilly runs full-screen and keeps caches around when the network drops. Two paths depending on the OS:
- iPad / iPhone (Safari): tap the Share icon, then Add to Home Screen.
- Android / ChromeOS (Chrome or Edge): open your team dashboard. We pop a discreet Install Swilly button there the first time. Or use the browser’s menu → Install Swilly.
What happens when you lose signal
Live logging is offline-safe for a whole game, not just a single point. Every event you tap (including closing points, setting lines, and adjusting the score) queues locally in the browser, and the score header shows an Offline indicator. You can log an entire game with no signal: the queue drains automatically as soon as connectivity returns, even if you background the tab or close it. Nothing is lost.
Pages you’ve already visited stay readable (the service worker caches the shell). New navigations to pages you haven’t loaded yet show a friendly You’re offline screen until the network comes back.
Screen rotation
The live logger lays out as two columns on tablet landscape (logger on the left, event log on the right). On portrait or phone widths it collapses to one column, logger first; the event log scrolls below. Either way, Undo Last is always accessible from the score header at the top.
Logging in bright sun
Direct sunlight beats any screen, so stack the odds: tap Sunlight in the score header for a high-contrast view built for the field (near-black text, hard borders, no grays), set screen brightness to max with auto-brightness off before the game, and grab shade when you can. A matte screen protector helps more than you’d think.
Battery + sleep
Logging an entire tournament on a single tablet drains battery fast. A few habits that help:
- Plug in between games whenever you can find an outlet.
- In shade, drop screen brightness — Swilly works fine at 60%. (In direct sun you want the opposite: max brightness and the Sunlight toggle.)
- Don’t worry about backgrounding the app between points. The service worker keeps the outbox syncing.
If you switch tablets mid-tournament
Log in on the second device, open the game, and keep logging. Events sync to the backend, not to the tablet — your point-by-point progress shows up wherever you sign in. If the first device has unsynced events queued, plug it in and open Swilly once more so it can flush.