Christopher Bloom
Frontend developer, lover of design systems, CSS architecture, and all things javascript.
The Ionic Framework is super hot
Christopher Bloom
Think: "Foundation for Mobile Apps"
(More like Sencha Touch)
- CSS framework
- Many, many prebuilt UI patterns
- Angular.js directives instead of nasty HTML
- Dev in a local browser, wrap in an app webview later
- Or just a really kickass mobile site.
ionicframework.com/docs/components/
Speaking of webview
- "Hybrid mobile apps"
- Access to the native platform layer
- UI and controllers powered by Angular
- Which means javascript
- Which means no compiling to native (à la Titanium)
- Which means Cordova (née PhoneGap)
Concept: Stop thinkinG URLS
-
Views
- No resource URLs
- Instead, think in terms of collections of views
- "Rectangles of UI content"
- Everything onscreen is a view: buttons, tab bars, etc
-
View Controllers
- Take individual views and control them as a group
Caveat
For the first releases, Ionic only works on recent iPhone and Android devices. We support iOS 6+, and Android 4.2+.
No baggage.
Installation
(OSX) Install XCode
Install Android SDK
Install Cordova
$ sudo npm install -g cordova Cordova
At some point this really becomes the "Cordova Show With Some Sparklies and Angular"
cordova prepare ios cordova build ios cordova emulate ios The Ionic Framework is super hot
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