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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

Adding versioning to future proof the app


It's typical that you don't think about keeping track of the app version for a particular user. However, as the app grows in the number of users as well as releases, you will soon face the problem of update issues and incompatibilities. For example, a user may run an old version of your app but all your backend APIs are now expecting new parameters from a newer app version. Therefore, you may want to think about a strategy to detect the app version locally in order to notify the users for an update requirement. This is also helpful if your backend processes differently for a specific app version.

The app you are going to build is very simple. It will detect the current version and store the information in a service. This is the screenshot of the app:

Getting ready

This app example must run on a physical device or a simulator.

How to do it...

Observe the following instructions:

  1. Create a new MyAppVersion app using the blank template, as follows, and go to...