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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

Ionic header and footer


Ionic has many directives to help common layouts in mobile apps. Ionic headers and footers are important directives for showing proper context for any view in a mobile app. The exact directives, name and their usage are detailed as follows.

The <ion-header-bar> directive

This directive adds a fixed header bar above any content. You can also add a subheader by adding a CSS class bar-subheader on the second <ion-header-bar> directive, which will be shown below the primary header. The sample code for usage is as follows:

<ion-header-bar align-title="left" class="bar-positive">
  <div class="buttons">
    <button class="button" ng-click="back()">Back</button>
  </div>
  <h1 class="title">All about Books</h1>
  <div class="buttons"> <button class="button">Logout</button>
  </div>
</ion-header-bar>

There are two attributes available on the directive to add functionality to the header bar as...