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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)

The future of PWAs

Progressive web applications gives us so many possibilities such as the ability to install, send push, and offline support, which bridges the gap between mobile web and native applications. Currently, the problem is that iOS and Safari do not have the support for service workers, which is still under consideration. There are assumptions going on that in the latter half of 2017, they might come up with service worker support, which will help enable PWA features.

Progressive web applications are the next step forward in improving mobile web. With growing mobile traffic day by day this make a lot of sense. Also, from last some time we were seeing that many websites are forcing their users to use mobile web to install native applications, which is really annoying. One of the famous e-commerce giants in India, Flipkart, even discontinued its mobile web version once with a banner that asks users to...