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Ionic Framework By Example

By : Sani Yusuf
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Ionic Framework By Example

By: Sani Yusuf

Overview of this book

Change doesn’t have to be challenging. Sometimes it can be simple – sometimes it just makes sense. With Ionic, mobile development has never been so simple, so elegant and obvious. By helping developers to harness AngularJS and HTML5 for mobile development, it’s the perfect framework for anyone obsessed with performance, and anyone that understands just how important a great user experience really is. This book shows you how to get started with Ionic framework immediately. But it doesn’t just give you instructions and then expect you to follow them. Instead it demonstrates what Ionic is capable of through three practical projects you can follow and build yourself. From a basic to-do list app, a London tourist app, to a complete social media app, all three projects have been designed to help you learn Ionic at its very best. From setting up your project to developing on both the server side and front end, and best practices for testing and debugging your projects, you’ll quickly become a better mobile developer, delivering high performance mobile apps that look awesome. Ionic Framework by Example is for people who don’t want to learn now, build later – it’s for people who want to learn and build at the same time – so they can meet today’s mobile development challenges head on and deliver better products than anyone else.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Chapter 7. Customizing the App

In the previous chapter, we dug deeply into some more advanced features of Ionic like the popover and the modal features. In this chapter, we will be focusing on customizing an Ionic application. The Ionic SDK comes by default with some great tools that make it easy to customize your application to fit the design guides of your brand. This is thanks to its built-in integration of Gulp for your build process needs and SCSS for CSS preprocessing.

Ionic also has a special Angular provider called $ionicConfigProvider. This provider can be used to do a lot of configuration and customization like specifying what type of animations your application should use or even more advanced stuff like specifying how many cache items you want in your cache. The $ionicConfigProvider also lets you specify these configurations on a global level, or on a platform-by-platform basis.