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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)

Creating physics-based animation using Dynamics.js

Using physics-based animations can make your app more interactive and lively, which helps attract and retain more users. There are many methods to add physics to your component animation. For example, you could even use the CSS animation-timing function to add property values, such as ease-in, ease-out, or cubic-bezier. However, it's easier and better to use an existing JavaScript-based physic animation. Dynamics.js is one of those JavaScript libraries that comes with utilities and performance. Using native CSS physic features is actually not a good practice, as it comes with a frame-per-second penalty on mobile devices.

The app will show a bouncing button, which can show and hide a top quote box, as follows; it also uses physics animation:

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