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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

Multiple ways to start a project


There are various methods to start a project as shown in the following sections.

Method 1 – using CDN-hosted library files

An Ionic App majorly requires the Ionic library JS and CSS files for development. These can be referenced directly from the CDN so that our app always uses the latest versions. We do not even require to set up our local environment for this method.

Note

This method should only be used for developing Mobile Apps using Ionic. To develop Hybrid Mobile Apps you would need to use Ionic CLI.

Ionic library is built on top of the AngularJS framework and hence we need to include its library files too. Ionic library includes two types of JS/CSS files, ones that have AngularJS code bundled to it and the others where the AngularJS code is segregated and needs to be included separately. The link to the Ionic CDN website where the URLs for each of the library files mentioned is http://code.ionicframework.com/.

We have to include the JavaScript file and the...