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Getting Started with Ionic

By : Rahat Khanna
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Getting Started with Ionic

By: Rahat Khanna

Overview of this book

Hybrid Apps are a promising choice in mobile app development to achieve cost effectiveness and rapid development. However, they were not preferred over native apps until few years back due to a poor performance and bad user experience, but everything has changed with the release of Ionic. It has evolved as the most popular choice for Hybrid Mobile App development as it tends to match the native experience and provides robust components/tools to build apps. Getting Started with Ionic equips any web developer with the basic knowledge needed to use modern web technologies to build amazing hybrid mobile apps using Ionic. This fast-paced, practical book explains all the important concepts of AngularJS and Cordova Framework required to develop apps, then gives you a brief introduction to hybrid mobile applications. It will guide you through setting up the environment to develop mobile apps, and through the multiple options and features available in Ionic so you can use them in your mobile apps. Features such as the Side Menu, Tabs, Touch Interactions, and native features such as Bar Code, Camera, and Geolocations are all covered.. Finally, we’ll show you how to use Cordova plugins and publish your apps.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Ionic
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Setting up the Environment the Right Way

In this chapter we will learn how to set up our development environment and build a dummy app to verify the correct setup. This chapter also defines the possible and popular issues faced during setup so that you do not face any bottlenecks during the process. The instructions are separated for Windows OS, generic Linux OS, and Mac OS.

As we have discussed, Ionic has evolved into an ecosystem from a basic framework. It is very important that we set up our development tools the right way to leverage the full potential of this ecosystem.

We will be setting up a lot of software just for developing Mobile Apps, but if we want to use the power of developing for multiple platform apps using a single codebase, we have to do this. Any Native App is always built using the Native Development tools and hence we have to install and set up a Native Mobile development environment for all the platforms.

Apart from the build tools of native environments, a...