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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

In this chapter, you will learn how to access some common features of a device, such as a camera, contact list, email, and maps. Some of these features can be written in a JavaScript-only environment, but the performance is not on a par with native support.

Cordova has a very well-supported community with many plugins. You may want to check out http://plugins.cordova.io/ to understand what is out there. Luckily, you don't need to deal with these plugins directly. You will use the Ionic Native (http://ionicframework.com/docs/v2/native/) service on top of Cordova and Angular. Keep in mind that you have to use Ionic Native instead of ngCordova for Ionic 2+ because of compatibility issues. You can only use ngCordova for Ionic 1.x.