You're reading from Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic Building highly interactive mobile apps

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785286056

Length 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Gaurav Saini

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Ionic 3 FREE CHAPTER

2. Ionic Components

3. Ionic Native and Plugins

4. Ionic Platform and Services

5. Authentication, Authorization, and Security

6. TasteBite App with Firebase

7. Ionic, IOT, and Beacons

8. Ionic + PWA = Magic

Ionic Native

Developers working on hybrid applications have been using ngCordova with Ionic 1 for some time. Now with Ionic 3, which is built with ES6 and TypeScript, we need to have a wrapper library for ES6 or TypeScript, which is exactly what Ionic Native is. It's a collection of ES5/ES6/TypeScript wrappers built on top of Cordova APIs, which makes it convenient to integrate into Ionic applications. The Ionic team started this project as a feature request from a community member. It started as an experiment and it gained a lot of support due to the fact that integrated plugins were always a pain when it comes to lack of documentation and confusing APIs. These Angularjs wrappers simplified the process of integration and fit with the Angular syntax also. Now there are around 120+ Cordova plugins supported in Ionic Native and still counting.

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Authors (1)

Saini

Gaurav Saini is an open-source enthusiastic and a JavaScript full-stack developer with a vast experience in Node.js, AngularJS, Electron, and Ionic. He is also associated with the Apache Software Foundation, where he is an active contributor and committer to Apache Roller, Apache Fineract, and Apache OFBiz projects. Currently, Gaurav is building a cloud telephony product Veloice, and actively researching IOT and VOIP projects. A major contributor to the AngularJS-based project, Gaurav was a Google Summer of Code Student intern in 2014 and was mentored in 2016 and 2017 by the Mifos Initiative. He has worked on Google Adwords and Analytics in the past and was a semi-finalist in the Google Online Marketing Challenge, 2012. Gaurav was selected as a delegate for the GSOC Summit in 2014 and 2016 in San Francisco and has been a guest lecturer at multiple conferences such as Mifos Techdays, ApacheCON, and Mifos Summit along with many local colleges and institutions.

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