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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)

Summary

Using Ionic with the BASS platform really ease a lot of tensions for a startup company as you will have the application built in less time for multiple platforms and without needing any resources or time for set up the backend server. Nowadays, a lot of growing companies are moving towards Ionic due to its development speed and lower cost. Small teams of developers with good JavaScript skills can build everything and even if they want to have a backend for custom tasks they can use Node.js and build an entire stack over JavaScript. Platform such as Firebase is really powerful for mobile application as it uses web sockets, which are really fast and provide real-time data synchronization.

Next we will work on some interesting latest technology IOT. Ionic has been quite famous with developers for quickly preparing applications to control various IOT devices via bluetooth or HTTP APIs. We will focus on building...