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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)

Fingerprint authentication using the fingerprint AIO plugin

Gone are the days when you wanted to just use a password authentication system. Authentication is becoming stronger and more intuitive. Most iOS devices these days have a fingerprint sensor and this trend is now starting to prevail in Android devices too. Users can secure their devices using a fingerprint password. Luckily, for developers like us, we can use the same technology to secure content inside our application, which the user can access after authentication.

In this recipe, we are creating an unlock secret app. It is basically a joke app. The home page looks like the following.

When the user clicks on the Reveal Secret button, it shows the Fingerprint Authentication dialog:

And when the user authenticates, we show a joke on the screen. It is as simple as that:

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