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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)

Cordova versus phonegap

There has been a lot of confusion and questions about Cordova and phonegap. Also, many people ask questions about which to use with Ionic. Although Ionic uses Cordova, we can also definitely use phonegap. Many still don't know about Cordova as phonegap is before phonegap.
Let's quickly look back at its history; phonegap was created in 2009 by Nitobi. Later in 2011, Adobe took over Nitobi along with the rights to the phonegap platform. The Open source core code of the platform was donated to the Apache organization for further development. Phonegap is also free and open source. Initially, there was minimal difference between Cordova and phonegap, but slowly Adobe started building a proprietary set of services around phonegap. Phonegap build is one of those services.
Cordova is the engine that powers phonegap, similar to webkit, which is the engine for the Chrome browser. There have...