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Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Indermohan Singh
Book Image

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)

Building an Android app to receive push notifications

A push notification works in the same way as iOS for Google; however, instead of using the Apple Notification Service, you will be working through the FCM server, which is a new replacement for Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). However, OneSignal abstracts this process so that you don't have to code using a different API. You will be using the same push object as for the iOS app.

For more information about the differences between FCM and GCM, visit the FAQs at https://firebase.google.com/support/faq.

In this section, you will learn how to do the following things:

  • Set up OneSignal for Android push notification
  • Configure the Firebase project for the push API
  • Write code to receive push notifications on Android

You will be using the same code base as your iOS push notification example. The main difference is the process to set...