Introduction to

ionic Framework

Hybrid Mobile Apps

  • Platform independent(iOS, Android, WP, ...)

  • HTML5, CSS3, JS

  • Performance Limitations

  • Rapid Development

  • Directly accessing to native API

Hybrid Mobile Apps

Hybrid vs. Native

  • Use Objective-C, Java etc.
  • Best Performance
  • Hardware interactive
  • Use HTML/CSS/JS
  • Rapid Development
  • Easy to customize UI
  • Cross-Platform
  • Cross-Browser
  • Only run on browser
  • No hardware interactive
  • Not so fast development

  • Hard to customize UI
  • Run only one platform

ionic Framework

  • An open source framework  for developing hybrid mobile apps with Angular, Sass and Cordova
  • Contains a lot of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components
  • Good friend with AngularJS to power-up mobile app
  • Uses Cordova to create, build, run and deploy mobile apps

ionic Versions

  • The first official Ionic release
    • v0.9.08-alpha: 2014-11-21
  • Latest Version: 1.0.0-rc.0"neodymium-newt"
    • Released: 2015-03-05

Supported Platforms

  • iOS 6+
  • Android 4+
  • WP 8+ (coming)
  • Firefox OS (coming)

The Stack Of Technologies

ionic Concept

What Should Know To Start?

  • HTML 5 / CSS 3 / JavaScript
  • command line tools
  • AngularJS
  • Sass (optional)

Prerequisites?

  • Java SDK
  • Android SDK + Eclipse/Android Studio
  • Node / NPM
  • Cordova
  • Gulp
  • Ionic

Setting Up Development Environment

$ npm install -g ionic

Install ionic

$ npm install -g cordova

Install Cordova

Setting Up additional Android/iOS platform settings for Cordova 

Create ionic App

  • blank
  • tabs
  • sideMenu

$ionic start myApp <template>

ionic App Folder Structure

Workflow

Testing on web server

$ionic serve

Add mobile platform

$ionic platform add [android/ios]

Run test on device/emulator

$ionic [run/emulate] [android/ios]

Ionicons

Components

List

Form

Checkbox

Components

Range

Tabs

Toggle

List Component HTML

What is Cordova?

What is Cordova?

  • Apache Cordova is a JavaScript API that "wraps" native APIs
  • Create Mobile Apps using HTML/JS/CSS
  • Re-use existing "web" skills
  • Re-use existing web frameworks
  • The User Interface is effectively a WebView that occupies the complete screen and runs in the native Container. 

What is ngCordova?

What is ngCordova?

  • Cordova has a lot of available plugins
  • Plugins give access to the machine functions
  • ngCordova "Angularizes" plugins for ready use
  • You are always free to write your own wrapper code

ngCordova Plugins

·  SMS

·  Social Sharing

·  Spinner Dialog

·  Splashscreen

·  SQLite

·  StatusBar

·  Toast

·  TouchID

·  Vibration

·  ZIP

Showcase

Demo...

Resources

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Introduction to Ionic Framework

By Barış SÖNMEZ

Introduction to Ionic Framework

An introduction to Ionic Framework.

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