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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)

Ionic and IOT

Developers have started to understand the potential of IOT, which is enormous. With so many different IOT devices in the market, there is also a need for applications to control these devices remotely. Now here comes Ionic to the rescue to help developers create apps quickly and inexpensively. Ionic is really efficient for building these apps and at the same time offers full native support to devices features for example, access to Bluetooth so sending signals to IOT devices. Already there are multiple devices that are connected over Bluetooth or HTTP APIs for data syncing and performing various actions. There are so many exciting projects currently going on and we will try to learn more about them. Let's look into some of the reasons for using Ionic 2 for building your next IOT application:

  • With Ionic 2, we can have Web apps, Android, iOS and soon desktop application with a single code base...