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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 9. Future of Ionic

Ionic has evolved from a framework to an ecosystem. Ionic started initially as a JS framework for developing a Hybrid Mobile App front end but it has come a long way and there is more to come. Ionic has become a platform to empower next gen Mobile Apps through web technologies and cloud services. In this chapter we will learn about these cloud services, which you can use to empower or augment the Ionic Apps you have built using this book. Also, we will discuss the future of the Ionic JS framework into its version 2, which will be based on Angular 2 involving a re-haul of the architecture using new technologies such as ES6/2015.

Ionic has launched the initial alpha version of v2 and it will take some time for it to stabilize. We will discuss the new features and migration strategy for v2. Ionic also has launched a portal, ionic.io, for managing all the cloud services it provides. We will discuss an overview of all these services. In this chapter we will discuss the...