Book Image

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)

Customizing themes based on the platform

Each mobile platform vendor has its own design guideline. This section will go over an example of a typical workflow to develop, view, debug, and address the app theme differently for iOS, Android, and Windows phone. In traditional development (using either the native language or other hybrid app solutions), you have to keep separate repositories for each platform in order to customize the theme. This could be very inefficient in the long run.

Ionic has many built-in features to support theme changes based on the detected platform. It makes it very convenient by separating Sass variables for each platform. This will eliminate a lot of unnecessary customizations. As a developer, you'd rather focus on the app experience than spend time managing the platform.

The example in this section covers two possible customizations using Sass and...