Book Image

Ionic 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Hoc Phan
Book Image

Ionic 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Hoc Phan

Overview of this book

Developing real-time apps is the need of the hour, and apps that deal with humongous amounts of user data and real-time information that needs to be updated frequently are in high demand. Currently, one of the most popular frameworks for this task is Ionic Framework, which is undergoing a major makeover. This book will get you started with Ionic and help you create Angular 2 components that interact with templates. From there, you’ll 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 the application to make it look pretty. You’ll learn to add in a local push notification in order to test the app. 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 as well as customizing your own. 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 (16 chapters)
Ionic 2 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building and publishing an app for Android


Building and publishing an Android app is a little more straightforward than iOS because you just interface with the command line to build the .apk file and upload it to Google Play's Developer Console.

The Ionic Framework documentation also has a great instruction page for this, which is http://ionicframework.com/docs/guide/publishing.html.

Getting ready

The requirement is to have your Google Developer account ready and to log in to https://play.google.com/apps/publish.

Your local environment should also have the right SDK as well as keytool, jarsigner, and zipalign command line for that specific version.

How to do it…

Here are the instructions:

  1. Go to your app folder and build for Android with the following command:

    $ ionic package build --release android
    
  2. You will see the android-release-unsigned.apk in the /platforms/android/build/outputs/apk folder. Go to that folder in the terminal:

  3. If this is the first time you created this app, you must have a keystore...