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Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785286056
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaurav Saini Gaurav Saini
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Ionic supports PWA

The Ionic team are great fans of the progressive web application, which offers an application-like experience using modern web APIs. Since Ionic 3 is built with web technologies that work perfectly in web browsers, this gives you a huge advantage when building your PWA with Ionic, because if you know how to build an Ionic 3 application, then you can easily build a PWA in a short period of time, you just have to add service workers and a web manifest file. We will be building an offline currency converter with PWA support and will finally host it on Firebase hosting.

What makes a web application a PWA?

In simple words, a PWA is meant to be eventually installed to the user's home screen, which means they will access it exactly like a native...

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