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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 + PWA = Magic

The next big thing coming after mobile applications are progressive web applications for mobile web. Progressive web applications (PWA) was originally started by Google in 2015 and we can already see many major companies came up with their PWA version for mobile web. Before PWA, many developers and companies lost interest in mobile web and were just focusing on native applications, but Google became strict and started penalizing sites for having banners to download native applications or not having mobile-friendly site. So after this developers started working on mobile web also and at the same time Google Chrome launched a support for PWA, and Flipkart initially came up with their progressive web application working closely with the Chrome team.

It's all about delivering amazing user experiences, whether it's a native application or a PWA, end users don't care as long as they...