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Learning Ionic, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
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Learning Ionic, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

Ionic makes it incredibly easy to build beautiful and interactive mobile apps using HTML5, SCSS, and Angular. Ionic also makes app development easier, faster, and more fun. This hands-on guide will help you understand the Ionic framework and how you can leverage it to create amazing real-time applications. We begin by covering the essential features of Angular 2, and then dive straight into how Ionic fits in today’s world of hybrid app development and give you a better understanding of the mobile hybrid architecture along the way. Further on, you will learn how to work with Ionic decorators, services, and components, which will allow you to build complex apps using the Ionic framework. We will take a look at theming Ionic apps using the built-in SCSS setup. After that, we will explore Ionic Native, and you will learn how to integrate device-specific features, such as notifications, with the Ionic app. To complete our learning, we will be building a Rider app, using Ionic and Uber API, to book a ride. Next, you will learn how to unit test, end-to-end test, monkey test, and execute device testing on AWS Device farm. Then, we will take a look at migrating the existing Ionic 1 apps to Ionic 2 and deploy them to the App Store. The final chapter on Ionic 3 wraps up this book by explaining the new features of Ionic 3 at the time of writing this book. By the end of this book, you will be able to develop, deploy, and manage hybrid mobile applications built with Cordova, Ionic, and Angular. All the examples in this book are valid for both Ionic 2 and Ionic 3.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

App overview

The app we are going to build is named Riderr. Riderr helps users to book a cab between two points. This app uses the APIs provided by Uber (https://uber.com/) to book a ride. In this app, we are not going to integrate all the APIs of Uber. We will be implementing a few endpoints that display the user's information as well as the user's ride information, and a few endpoints that help us book a ride, view the current ride, and cancel a ride.

To achieve this, we will be using Uber's OAuth to authenticate the user so that we can display the user's information as well as book a ride on behalf of the user.

Here is a quick preview of what the app is going to look like once we are done building the app:

Note: Neither the book publication company nor I take any responsibility for loss of money or account ban from Uber. Please read the API instructions clearly before using Uber Production...