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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

Integrating with Parse


Parse has evolved from being a simple cloud backend to a sophisticated platform having a multitude of features. Parse is maintained by Facebook itself and has excellent integration with all Facebook SDKs.

Parse has segmented its platform into three major sections:

  • Core: APIs to store and retrieve data, user management, and webhooks for writing custom logic on the cloud

  • Push: Services enabling the management of Push Notifications for multiple platforms

  • Analytics: Tracking any data or events for your app and users in real time

Discussion on all of these services is beyond the scope of this book, but we will explain how you can integrate Parse into your enables and leverage the platform.

The high-level steps involved in integrating your Ionic App will be discussed here.

Step 1 – creating an app on Parse

In order to create an app on Parse, one requires to sign up for the account on www.parse.com. The basic account is absolutely free and provides sufficient storage and bandwidth...