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Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Singh
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Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Singh

Overview of this book

Ionic is the preferred choice for JavaScript developers to develop real-time hybrid applications. This book will get you started with Ionic 3.9 and help you create Angular 5 components that interact with templates. You will work with Ionic components and find out how to share data efficiently between them. You'll discover how to make the best use of the REST API to handle back-end services and then move on to animating your application to make it look pretty. You then learn to add in a local push notification in order to test the app. Then you'll work with Cordova to support native functionalities on both iOS and Android. From there, you'll get to grips with using the default themes for each platform and customizing your own. We then take you through the advanced Ionic features like lazy loading, deep linking, localizing ionic apps etc. Finally, you'll see how best to deploy your app to different platforms. This book will solve all your Ionic-related issues through dedicated recipes that will help you get the best out of Ionic.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Introduction

User experience is crucial for the initial traction of users. When your early adopters use the app for the first time, they will have a better impression, which creates trust and increases retention. App animation will also provide interactive feedback for the users so that they know what to do or can take action based on very gentle visual hints.

Native apps used to have an advantage over web-based hybrid apps because of animation performance. However, frameworks such as Ionic and Angular have closed the gap in performance a lot in the recent years. Web animation is also easier to learn and code since many frontend developers are familiar with JavaScript and CSS.

In this chapter, you will learn how to do basic animation using video and CSS. Then, you will start utilizing physics-based animation to create interesting interactivity. Moreover, you could even bind the...