To get the most out of this book

1. In the book, I assume that you have some knowledge of Angular. Most of the time the problem that you will face will be regarding Angular instead of Ionic. https://angular.io is your best friend in that case.
2. If you want to brush up your information about Angular, I would suggest this book by Victor Savkin and Jeff Cross (former Angular team members) https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/essential-angular.
3. Even though you can run most of examples without installing platform SDKs for Android or iOS. I suggest you to do this in the very beginning, in order to test the applications on actual devices. Take a look at these guides:
   • Android: https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/platforms/android/index.html#requirements-and-support
   • iOS: https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/platforms/ios/index.html

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

<ion-tabs> 
  <ion-tab [root]="tab1Root" tabTitle="One" 
   tabIcon="water"></ion-tab>  <ion-tab [root]="tab2Root" 
   tabTitle="Two" 
   tabIcon="leaf"></ion-tab>  <ion-tab [root]="tab3Root" 
   tabTitle="Three" 
   tabIcon="flame"></ion-tab> 
</ion-tabs> 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ ionic start LeftRightMenu sidemenu
$ cd LeftRightMenu

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.