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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 6. Integrating App with Backend Services

Mobile Apps are incomplete without data, and the data on the mobile is not enough. We have learnt to start Mobile App projects and create complex views with different components. In this chapter we will learn how to integrate our Ionic Apps with web services to fetch and submit data. Use cases involving data exchange for Mobile Apps include central user authentication/authorization, saving your personalization data, storing images, searching public datasets, storing transactions, and so on. Mobile Apps have become a major source for collaboration and require strong integration to robust backend services to support communication and real-time messaging.

Here, we will first learn about the low-level constructs available in Angular/Ionic to integrate into any web service conforming to JSON/REST standards. There is also another object available that maps to REST entities directly, helping to shorten the integration development effort and time....