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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)

Displaying a local notification using the local notification plugin

When you are developing mobile applications, your app might want to notify the user about something. If the information is coming from the backend, we use push notifications. But, if the information is generated by the app, locally on the device, we can use a local notification for that.

This recipe is intended to help you understand how local notifications work.

When you open the app, you will see the following page.

You can input anything in the input box and then click on SHOW NOTIFICATION. You can also schedule a notification to show later. This is what a notification looks like in the notification area:

Getting ready

You should have a physical device...