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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

Network


The network device plugin helps in identifying the network on which the device is connected and listening to network change events. The $cordovaNetwork is a service of the ngCordova module, which exposes multiple methods and events for managing the network.

The command line to be executed using the Ionic/Cordova CLI is:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-network-information

The methods available under this service are:

  • Method Name: getNetwork()

    • Returns: The Connection object (this property determines the connection state and connection type)

      The possible connection types can be:

      Type

      Description

      Connection.UNKNOWN

      Unknown connection

      Connection.ETHERNET

      Ethernet connection

      Connection.WIFI

      Wi-Fi connection

      Connection.CELL_2G

      Cell 2G connection

      Connection.CELL_2G

      Cell 3G connection

      Connection.CELL_2G

      Cell 4G connection

      Connection.CELL

      Cell generic connection

      Connection.NONE

      No network connection

  • Method Name: isOnline()

    • Returns: Boolean (true if network is online)

  • Method...