The beautiful, open source framework for developing hybrid mobile apps with HTML 5

Demo Time

In < 10 minutes

Create New Project
Pull in some data
Deploy to Android Device

"So you want to build a native app?"

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More Platforms. More Problems.

Why are we still coding for multiple platforms?

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"Is there an alternative?"

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"Hello."

"I have heard hybrid apps are slow!"

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Mobile devices have rapidly improved!

Year	Device	Processor	RAM
2007	iPhone	620 MHz	128 MB
2010	iPhone 4	1 GHz	512 MB
2015	iPhone 6	1.4 GHz dual-core	1 GB

Web Technologies You

Already Know and Love

Standing on the Shoulders of AngularJS

Proven for large-scale webapp development
Extends the HTML vocabulary
UI Components using Directives and Services

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Plain ol' CSS

Cohesive visual system
Clean and simple
Easy to customize
Stand-alone CSS

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CSS generated from the Sass preprocessor
Quickly give your app its own look and feel
CSS designed to be easily overridden
Variables based with default settings
80+ reusable and useful mixins

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Performance Obsessed

Hardware accelerated animations
Minimal DOM Manipulation
Removed 300ms tap delay

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Native Focused

Modeled off of native SDKs
Built to work with Cordova

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Supported Devices

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iOS 6+

Android 4+

What about Windows Phone?

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Supports ms-appx protocol Cordova uses
Improved the click/drag/scrolling behavior.
Created a fix for ng-show in IE
Removed the IE “squish” effect.
Added a fixed range input display
Set default spinner to one that animates properly

Future with Windows Phone?

@digitaldrummerj

Number of issues around tap, click, activator behavior
Ionic is working with some Microsoft team members to address Windows Phone issues more directly.

"How does it all come together?"

Your App

Ionic

AngularJS

WebView (Cordova)

Native SDK

But wait...

There is

No

Web SDK

Ionic Built-In UI Elements

i.e. Web SDK

Ionicons

Over 600 MIT licensed font-icons included

ionicons.com

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List

<div class="list">

  <div class="item item-divider">
    Candy Bars
  </div>

  <a class="item" href="#">
    Butterfinger
  </a>

  <a class="item" href="#">
    Kit Kat
  </a>

  ...

</div>

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Complex List

<ion-list>
  <ion-item
         ng-repeat="item in items" 
         class="item-thumbnail-left">
    <img ng-src="{{ item.pic }}">
    <h2>{{ item.name }}</h2>
    <p>{{ item.quote }}</p>
  </ion-item>
</ion-list>

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Collection Repeat

<ion-list>
  <ion-item 
    collection-repeat="item in contacts" 
    class="item item-avatar" 
    item-width="100%">
       <img 
            ng-src="img/{{item.mycat}}.png"> 
       <h2>
            {{item.name}}
        </h2>
       <p> </p>
  </ion-item>
</ion-list>

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Tabs

<ion-tabs class="tabs-icon-only">
  <ion-tab title="Home" 
        icon="ion-star">
    <ion-nav-view></ion-nav-view>
  </ion-tab>

  <ion-tab title="Feedback"
         icon="ion-thumbsdown">
    <ion-nav-view></ion-nav-view>
  </ion-tab>

  <ion-tab title="Messages" 
        icon="ion-chatbubble-working">
    <ion-nav-view></ion-nav-view>
  </ion-tab>
</ion-tabs>

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Side Menu

<ion-side-menus>
  <ion-side-menu-content>
    <ion-nav-bar></ion-nav-bar>
    <ion-nav-view></ion-nav-view>
  </ion-side-menu-content>

  <ion-side-menu side="left">
    <header class="bar bar-header bar-positive">
      <div class="title">Projects</div>
    </header>
    <ion-content has-header="true">
      <div class="list">
        <a href="#/work" class="item">Work</a>
        <a href="#/home" class="item">Home</a>
      </div>
    </ion-content>
  </ion-side-menu>

</ion-side-menus>

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Slide Box

<ion-slide-box 
    on-slide-changed="change(index)">
  <ion-slide>
    Slide 1
  </ion-slide>
  <ion-slide>
    Slide 2
  </ion-slide>
  <ion-slide>
    Slide 3
  </ion-slide>
</ion-slide-box>

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Action Sheet

$ionicActionSheet.show({
  titleText: 'Modify your album',
  buttons: [
    { text: 'Share' },
    { text: 'Move' },
  ],
  destructiveText: 'Delete',
  cancelText: 'Cancel',
  buttonClicked: function(index) {
    console.log('BUTTON CLICKED', index);
    return true;
  }
});

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Popover

$ionicPopover.fromTemplateUrl('popover.html',
  function(popover) {
    $scope.popover = popover;
  }
);

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<ion-popover-view>
  <ion-header-bar>
    <h1 class="title">My Popover Title</h1>
  </ion-header-bar>
  <ion-content class="padding">
    Hello!
  </ion-content>
</ion-popover-view>

Modal

$ionicModal.fromTemplateUrl('modal.html', {
  scope: $scope
}).then(function(modal) {
  $scope.modal = modal;
});

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<script id="my-modal.html" type="text/ng-template">
  <ion-modal-view>
    <ion-header-bar>
      <h1 class="title">New Contact</h1>
    </ion-header-bar>
    <ion-content>
      Hello!
    </ion-content>
  </ion-modal-view>
</script>

Pull to Refresh

<ion-refresher on-refresh="refreshData()"
    pulling-text="Pulling to refresh..."
    refreshing-text="Refreshing!"
    refreshing-icon="ion-loading-c">
</ion-refresher>

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Navigation

<ion-nav-bar>
  <ion-nav-back-button>
    Back
  </ion-nav-back-button>
</ion-nav-bar>

<ion-nav-view>
  <!-- content -->
</ion-nav-view>

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Are people using it?

http://showcase.ionicframework.com/

Ionic's Adoption

over 13, 000+ stars on GitHub
Top 50 most popular open source projects
Ionic CLI averages 2,300 downloads/day
400,000+ apps have been started from the CLI
Released Alpha: November 2013
Released Beta: March 2014
Release Candidate: Winter 2014
1.0 Release: Spring 2015

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The personal stylist in your pocket
Pulls in over 2 million products from 100 big name fashion brands
Next generation fashion mall for whatever style you require.
http://mallzee.com/

Mallzee

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Like Uber for commercial trucking
Connect to thousands of freight shippers and brokerages across the country
https://www.keychainlogistics.com/

Keychain

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Fitness app that guides anyone thru 5-60 minute circuits
Downloaded over 3 million times
Been featured in multiple Health and Fitness lists within both the App Store and Google Play
http://sworkit.com/

Sworkit

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How to get started?

! But Not So Fast


$ npm install -g cordova@5.0.0 ionic gulp bower

Installing Ionic

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Install NodeJs - http://nodejs.org
Install Git (Windows Only) - https://msysgit.github.io/
Globally install npm packages:
- cordova@5.0.0
- ionic
- gulp
- bower

Android Prerequisites

Windows / Linux / OSx
Java SDK 7
Android Studio
Android SDK (API 19 = 4.4)
Google Chrome (for debugging)
Genymotion
Google Developers Account ($25 lifetime)

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iOS Prerequisites

MAC / OSx only
XCode
iOS Simulator
Safari
Apple Developers Account ($99 per year)

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Ionic on Windows Setup

Automated using Chocolatey:
- digitaldrummerj.me/Ionic-Setup-Windows/
- Read the "How To Use this Gist File Section" for instructions
Manual:
- therockncoder.blogspot.com/2014/12/installing-ionic-framework-from-scratch.html

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Ionic on a Mac Setup

digitaldrummerj.me/ionic-setup-osx/

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Ionic on Ubuntu Setup

Instructions:

github.com/nraboy/ubuntu-ionic-installer

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What's building an app like?

Create ionic app

Create new project

Test on web browser

Add mobile platform (Android or iOS)

Run test on device/emulator

ionic start myApp [blank/tabs/sideMenu]

ionic serve

ionic platform add [android/ios]

ionic [run/emulate] [ android/ios]

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Side by Side

Android and iOS Phone

Supports Live Reload

Ionic Lab

$ ionic serve --lab

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Ionic View

Makes it easy to share your Ionic app without ever going through the App Store.

$ ionic start myApp tabs
$ cd myApp
$ ionic upload
$ ionic share [email address]

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Automatically generate icons and splash screens

Creates size needed for each platform

Icons and Splash Screens

$ ionic resources
$ ionic resources --icon
$ ionic resources --splash

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Get Ionic documentation from the Ionic CLI

Opens a browser window directly to the doc

Ionic Docs

$ ionic docs ls

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Additional Tooling from Ionic

Ionic Creator

https://creator.ionic.io/

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Ionic and Crosswalk

Specify version of Chrome to run your Cordova App.
Up to 10x performance increase
App will grow ~10-15 mb in size.

$ionic start my_app
$cd my_app
$ionic browser add crosswalk
$ionic run android

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Ionic Push

Easily send push notifications to
- Multiple platforms
- Schedule notifications
- Target specific user groups
Intuitive UI as well as a REST API.

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docs.ionic.io/v1.0/docs/push-from-scratch

Ionic Deploy

Update your Ionic applications without having to resubmit to app stores
Rollback to previous versions at any time.
Currently in Alpha. Not recommended for production

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docs.ionic.io/docs/deploy-from-scratch

Ionic Analytics

Track every part of the user’s interaction
Easily identify pain points
Setup custom events

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docs.ionic.io/docs/analytics-from-scratch

Pricing

- Tools and Services are currently in alpha testing
- Free during this period
- Billing information and pricing plans will be announced as it gets closer to production.

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Demo Time

Ionic Creator
Ionic Resource
Ionic Themes
Ionic View
Ionic Push

thank you

i'm Justin.

@digitaldrummerj - digitaldrummerj@gmail.com

http://digitaldrummerj.me

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Ionic Framework Overview - July 2015

By Justin James

Ionic Framework Overview - July 2015

Presentation for an Ionic Framwork Overview. Learn what the Ionic Framework is, what is provides, and how to start using it.

3,225

Demo Time

In < 10 minutes

Create New Project

Pull in some data

Deploy to Android Device

"So you want to build a native app?"

More Platforms. More Problems.

"Is there an alternative?"

"I have heard hybrid apps are slow!"

Mobile devices have rapidly improved!

Web Technologies You

Already Know and Love

Standing on the Shoulders of AngularJS

Plain ol' CSS

Cohesive visual system

Clean and simple

Easy to customize

Stand-alone CSS

Performance Obsessed

Hardware accelerated animations

Minimal DOM Manipulation

Removed 300ms tap delay

Native Focused

Supported Devices

What about Windows Phone?

Supports ms-appx protocol Cordova uses

Improved the click/drag/scrolling behavior.

Created a fix for ng-show in IE

Removed the IE “squish” effect.

Added a fixed range input display

Set default spinner to one that animates properly

Future with Windows Phone?

Number of issues around tap, click, activator behavior

Ionic is working with some Microsoft team members to address Windows Phone issues more directly.

"How does it all come together?"

But wait...

There is

No

Web SDK

Ionic Built-In UI Elements

i.e. Web SDK

Ionicons

List

Complex List

Collection Repeat

Tabs

Side Menu

Slide Box

Action Sheet

Popover

Modal

Pull to Refresh

Navigation

Are people using it?

Ionic's Adoption

over 13, 000+ stars on GitHub

Top 50 most popular open source projects

400,000+ apps have been started from the CLI

Released Alpha: November 2013

Released Beta: March 2014

Release Candidate: Winter 2014

Mallzee

Keychain

Sworkit

How to get started?

! But Not So Fast

Installing Ionic

Android Prerequisites

Windows / Linux / OSx

Java SDK 7

Android Studio

Android SDK (API 19 = 4.4)

Google Chrome (for debugging)

Genymotion

Google Developers Account ($25 lifetime)

iOS Prerequisites

MAC / OSx only

XCode

iOS Simulator

Safari

docs.ionic.io/docs/analytics-from-scratch