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Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic

By : Gaurav Saini
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Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic

By: Gaurav Saini

Overview of this book

Ionic is an open source, front-end framework that allows you to develop hybrid mobile apps without any native-language hassle for each platform. It offers a library of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS, and JS components for building highly interactive mobile apps. This book will help you to develop a complete, professional and quality mobile application with Ionic Framework. You will start the journey by learning to configure, customize, and migrate Ionic 1x to 3x. Then, you will move on to Ionic 3 components and see how you can customize them according to your applications. You will also implement various native plugins and integrate them with Ionic and Ionic Cloud services to use them optimally in your application. By this time, you will be able to create a full-fledged e-commerce application. Next, you will master authorization, authentication, and security techniques in Ionic 3 to ensure that your application and data are secure. Further, you will integrate the backend services such as Firebase and the Cordova iBeacon plugin in your application. Lastly, you will be looking into Progressive Web Applications and its support with Ionic, with a demonstration of an offline-first application. By the end of the book, you will not only have built a professional, hybrid mobile application, but will also have ensured that your app is secure and performance driven.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Summary

We've now covered the get started part of Ionic and have gone through various aspects of what to take care of while building a large application. We now know how important it is to organize your files and folders in a project. We also discussed various setups, such as customizing applications through SASS, automatically creating icons and splash screens for various platforms, and uploading/sharing applications. Later in the chapter we went on to cover many Ionic CLI commands that help us quickly develop and debug applications. Ionic CLI is advancing day by day and many new features and tasks are coming. What we all should do is regularly update Ionic CLI and check for new features so that in our next application we can take advantage of them. We are now prepared to dig more deeply into Ionic and its components. In Chapter 2, Ionic Components, we will be going around with the Ionic components and this is where we will move onto real application building where we will be using lists, virtual scrolling, localization, navigation, and many other components. This will help us make complex applications where we will have many tasks at hand. UI customization is another aspect we will look into, as almost every application will have a different design and we can easily build them over the current Ionic components with small tweak. Another important aspect we will look into is the custom modules built by the Ionic community, which we can directly use inside our application.