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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)

Sharing content using the social sharing plugin

If you develop an app with shareable content, you might want to utilize the native device feature to share via the device's authorized social media accounts. There are several benefits to using this approach. First, users don't need to open a separate browser to log in to their social media account each time they want to share. Second, all the information can be filled out programmatically, such as title, body, link, or image. Finally, since this is a native feature of the device, the menu selection allows users to see multiple accounts, which they are already familiar with, to choose from. The social sharing plugin can greatly enhance the user experience.

This is the app that you will build:

When the user clicks on the SHARE button, the app will show the following native button menu for social media account selection...