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Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Singh
Book Image

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)

Embedding full screen inline video as background

Today, there are many apps that leverage video as an animated background for the introduction screen. This makes the app more interesting and creative. The users feel that they are welcomed to the app. This tactic is great to impress new users and encourage them to return.

This section will teach you how to add a video with autoplay in the background:

You will also learn how to use animate.css to add custom animation to the app header text.

Getting ready

This app example could work either in the browser or on a physical device. However, it's optional that you connect your physical device to verify that the animation plays correctly in the background.

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