Ionic Cookbook

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Ionic Cookbook

By : Hoc Phan

Book Image

Ionic Cookbook

By: Hoc Phan

Overview of this book

Ionic Cookbook

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Creating Our First App with Ionic

Creating Our First App with Ionic

Setting up a development environment

Creating a HelloWorld app via CLI

Creating a HelloWorld app via Ionic Creator

Copying examples from Ionic Codepen Demos

Viewing the app using your web browser

Viewing the app using iOS Simulator

Viewing the app using Xcode for iOS

Viewing the app using Genymotion for Android

Viewing the app using Ionic View

Customizing the app folder structure

Managing States and Navigation

Managing States and Navigation

Creating a tab interface with nested views

Creating a multistep form with validation

Adding Device Features Support

Adding Device Features Support

Taking a photo using the device camera

Capturing video and allowing playback

Composing an email with an attachment from an app

Picking and adding a contact

Adding Google Maps with geocoding support

Offline Data Storage

Offline Data Storage

Creating a to-do app using ngStorage for Local Storage

Creating a social networking app using SQLite

Handling Gestures and Events

Handling Gestures and Events

Detecting drag events with a gesture coordinate

Communication between a view, controller, and directive using events

App Theme Customization

App Theme Customization

Customizing themes for specific platforms

Creating an introduction screen with a custom header

Extending Ionic with Your Own Components

Extending Ionic with Your Own Components

Creating a scroll progress bar directive

Creating a custom filter

Animating an app using requestAnimationFrame with event binding

User Registration and Authentication

User Registration and Authentication

Configuring a Facebook app with Firebase authentication

Configuring a Twitter app with Firebase authentication

Configuring a Google+ project with Firebase authentication

Creating an Ionic social authentication project for Facebook using $firebaseAuth

Creating a LinkedIn app and configuring authentication in Auth0

Integrating Auth0's LinkedIn authentication in an Ionic project

Saving and Loading Data Using Firebase

Saving and Loading Data Using Firebase

Saving array data to Firebase

Rendering a large Firebase data set using collection-repeat

Saving form data to Firebase

Finalizing Your Apps for Different Platforms

Finalizing Your Apps for Different Platforms

Building and publishing an app for iOS

Building and publishing an app for Android

Using PhoneGap Build for cross-platform applications

Index

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Building and publishing an app for Android

Building and publishing an Android app is a little more straightforward than iOS because you just interface with the command line to build an .apk file and upload it to Google Play Developer Console. The Ionic Framework documentation also has a great instruction page for this, which can be viewed by visiting http://ionicframework.com/docs/guide/publishing.html.

Getting ready

The requirement is to have your Google Developer account ready and log in to https://play.google.com/apps/publish. Your local environment should also have the right SDK as well as the keytool, jarsigner, and zipalign command line for that specific version.

How to do it...

Here are the instructions to build and publish an app for Android:

Go to your app folder and build the release for Android:
```
$ ionic build --release android
```
You will see android-release-unsigned.apk in the apk folder under /platforms/android/build/outputs. Go to this folder in the Terminal:
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