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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 7. Testing App on Real Devices

We have learnt how to develop Mobile Apps for multiple platforms and devices using Ionic Framework, but we cannot launch it unless we test it. During the development also, we should test our apps on actual devices so that we can validate the functional aspects of our app. The Mobile App will behave differently on various platforms and screen sizes and hence it is necessary to check the output on most of the popular devices.

In this chapter, we will learn how to run our apps on actual devices using different approaches. We have already seen how we test our Ionic Apps in the browser during development. We will also briefly discuss the special provision in our browsers to emulate actual devices and test our app on tens of options without the need of getting the physical devices. An individual developer cannot easily get hold of all devices such as an iPhone, Nexus, iPad, Galaxy, or Windows Tab/Phone. So, I would recommend using the option of testing your...