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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

There will be a continuous evolution of Cordova plugins and we need to take care that we are updated with the latest features that are introduced. With Ionic coming into the market, the last few years have seen increased development of hybrid applications and plugins. This is because more people are interested in using it and multiple custom plugins are developed for keeping in touch with the latest technology. One similar example is Bluetooth beacons and multiple plugins developed by developers for supporting its different formats. We have now covered plugin development, which is another important aspect of developing complex hybrid applications. We can now leverage the power of plugins for building advance hybrid applications that require access to Native APIs. 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...