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Learning Ionic, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
Book Image

Learning Ionic, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

Ionic makes it incredibly easy to build beautiful and interactive mobile apps using HTML5, SCSS, and Angular. Ionic also makes app development easier, faster, and more fun. This hands-on guide will help you understand the Ionic framework and how you can leverage it to create amazing real-time applications. We begin by covering the essential features of Angular 2, and then dive straight into how Ionic fits in today’s world of hybrid app development and give you a better understanding of the mobile hybrid architecture along the way. Further on, you will learn how to work with Ionic decorators, services, and components, which will allow you to build complex apps using the Ionic framework. We will take a look at theming Ionic apps using the built-in SCSS setup. After that, we will explore Ionic Native, and you will learn how to integrate device-specific features, such as notifications, with the Ionic app. To complete our learning, we will be building a Rider app, using Ionic and Uber API, to book a ride. Next, you will learn how to unit test, end-to-end test, monkey test, and execute device testing on AWS Device farm. Then, we will take a look at migrating the existing Ionic 1 apps to Ionic 2 and deploy them to the App Store. The final chapter on Ionic 3 wraps up this book by explaining the new features of Ionic 3 at the time of writing this book. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop, deploy, and manage hybrid mobile applications built with Cordova, Ionic, and Angular. All the examples in this book are valid for both Ionic 2 and Ionic 3.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Ionic Cloud

You can create and manage your Ionic apps at https://apps.ionic.io/apps. In the preceding commands, the app ID we were referring to is the app ID that gets generated when we create a new app using the https://apps.ionic.io/apps interface.

You can create a new app by clicking on the New App button inside the https://apps.ionic.io/apps page. Once the app is created, you can click on the app name and then you will be taken to the app details page.

You can update the app settings by clicking on the Settings link on the app details page.

Note: You can read more about setting up Ionic apps here: http://docs.ionic.io/ .

Ionic Cloud also provides other services such as Auth, IonicDB, Deploy, Push, and Package.

To use any of these services, we need to first scaffold an Ionic app, and then add this app to Ionic Cloud by running:

ionic io init

Next, you can install the cloud client to interact with the cloud from...