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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)

BLE, beaconsm, and the physical Web

BLE stands for Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth 4.0 has have brought innovative changes to the IOT industry. There was time when Bluetooth was considered as a medium to exchange files but now, as technology has evolved we can already see how the fitness band and smart-watch market has grown. Bluetooth smart devices consume low energy which helps the smartphone battery last longer and proves to be effective for the IOT industry. With Bluetooth once again penetrating into the market. we are seeing high usage of Bluetooth devices inside the IOT industry.

iBeacons

Beacons are devices broadcasting small data packets at regular interval. This is a one-way communication method and is based on BLE technology. Beacons advertise themselves...