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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

Introduction


Tracking and engaging users are key features necessary for your app to grow. That means you should be able to register and authenticate users. Once the users start using the app, you also need to segment the users so that you can customize their interactions. Then, you can send push notifications to encourage users to revisit the app.

There are three components that you need to use for your project, as follows:

  • Ionic Cloud: This is a cloud service that helps save user information and coordinate push notifications between you, Apple, or Google and the end users' devices.

  • Ionic Cloud Angular module: This is just an Angular module to import to your local project. It provides some simple utilities for your code to interface with Ionic Cloud. Otherwise, directly calling Ionic Cloud API would be very complex.

  • Cordova Push Notification and InAppBrowser: Since your code is in JavaScript, you need to communicate with the device's native features, such as push notification.