Book Image

Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic

By : Gaurav Saini
Book Image

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)

Introduction to Firebase and TasteBite apps

Getting started with Firebase is really simple; that is the main reason many startups and growing products use all these Backend as a Service platforms like Firebase. We will quickly start by creating a TasteBite application with Firebase and Ionic. In this application we integrated an AngularFire2 wrapper for Angular applications using Firebase, although, we can simply use the Javascript SDK also inside our application. You need to create an account at Firebase (initially you can have a free account; as your consumption increases you can upgrade your account easily).

Firebase has made the life of developers easier as they don't have to spend time building backend server to build simple APIs. We can easily do all CRUD operations with minimum effort and with Web socket supports it's super fast in syncing data. Also, Firebase offers offline sync, user authentication...