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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)

TasteBite App with Firebase

Till now we have covered many things in theory with respect to Ionic applications. We are half-way into this exciting journey developing high-performance enterprise applications. We now will focus on building an entire application from start to end and will be using a backend as a service platform for Firebase. We will be developing a food rating application where the user can search for the best food items by multiple users in his city. Also, we will allow authenticated users to give reviews and ratings to the food items, which will help us rate food items inside our application. Firebase is one such BAAS platform and we will be demonstrating it in this chapter; other than Firebase we can also use Stamplay, Kinvey, or Backendless, which are similar platforms that help frontend developers build application rapidly. After this brief introduction about our application, let's overview...