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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)

Ionic supports PWA

The Ionic team are great fans of the progressive web application, which offers an application-like experience using modern web APIs. Since Ionic 3 is built with web technologies that work perfectly in web browsers, this gives you a huge advantage when building your PWA with Ionic, because if you know how to build an Ionic 3 application, then you can easily build a PWA in a short period of time, you just have to add service workers and a web manifest file. We will be building an offline currency converter with PWA support and will finally host it on Firebase hosting.

What makes a web application a PWA?

In simple words, a PWA is meant to be eventually installed to the user's home screen, which means they will access it exactly like a native...