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Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Indermohan Singh
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Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Indermohan 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)

Adding multiple pages using tabs

This section will explain how to work with the Ionic tab interface and expand it to other use cases. The example used is very basic, with three tabs and some sample Ionic components in each tab. This is a very common structure that you will find in many apps. You will learn how Ionic structures the tab interface and how it translates to individual folders and files.

In this example, you will build three tabs, as follows:

  • A tab showing a simple text-only page to explain where to place the components
  • A tab showing a signup form
  • A tab showing a horizontal slider box

Although the app is very straightforward, it will teach you a lot of key concepts in Angular and Ionic. Some of them are the component decorators, themes, and the TypeScript compiler process.

Here is a screenshot of the example app with the middle tab selected:

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