Sani Yusuf

Rahat Khanna

Hoc Phan

An end–to-end journey, empowering you to build real-time, scalable, and interactive mobile applications with the Ionic framework About This Book Develop engaging mobile experiences with a native-looking UI in Ionic and AngularJS. Use out-of-the-box Ionic functionalities, customize existing components, and add new components with this comprehensive course. Learn Ionic by creating three complete mobile applications Who This Book Is For If you are a web developer who wants to build hybrid mobile app development using the Ionic framework, then this comprehensive course is best-suited for you. What You Will Learn Get to know about Hybrid Apps and AngularJS Set up a development environment to build Hybrid Apps Navigate around components and routing in Ionic Authenticate users using an e-mail password, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn Retrieve data and store it using Firebase Access native device functionalities such as the camera, contact list, e-mail, and maps using NG-Cordova Integrate PhoneGap plugins with NG-Cordova Test your apps to improve and optimize performance In Detail Hybrid Apps are a promising choice in mobile app development to achieve cost-effectiveness and rapid development. Ionic has evolved as the most popular choice for Hybrid Mobile App development as it tends to match the native experience and provides robust components/tools to build apps. The Ionic Complete Developers course takes you on an end–to-end journey, empowering you to build real-time, scalable, and interactive mobile applications with the Ionic framework. Starting with an introduction to the Ionic framework to get you up and running, you will gradually move on to setting up the environment, and work through the multiple options and features available in Ionic to build amazing hybrid mobile apps. You will learn how to use Cordova plugins to include native functionality in your hybrid apps. You will work through three complete projects and build a basic to-do list app, a London tourist app, and a complete social media app. All three projects have been designed to help you learn Ionic at its very best. From setting up your project to developing on both the server side and front end, and best practices for testing and debugging your projects, you'll quickly be able to deliver high-performance mobile apps that look awesome. You will then hone your skills with recipes for cross-platform development. Integrating Ionic with Cordova will bring you native device features, and you will learn about the best modules from its ecosystem. Creating components and customizing the theme will allow you to extend Ionic. You'll see how to build your app to deploy to all platforms to make you a confident start-to-finish mobile developer. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: Getting Started with Ionic – by Rahat Khanna Ionic by Example – by Sani Yusuf Ionic Cookbook – by Hoc Phan Style and approach This course shows you how to get up and running with the Ionic framework. It doesn't just give you instructions, expecting you to follow them. Instead, with a hands-on approach, it demonstrates what Ionic is capable of through a series of practical projects that you can build yourself.

Ionic : Hybrid Mobile App Development

Ethan Holmes

Tom Bray

Hazem Saleh

Enhance your JavaScript skills by venturing into the domain of developing mobile applications About This Book Extend your JavaScript skillset to build, test, and launch mobile apps with confidence Follow three sample projects to experience Ionic's impressive capabilities Extend the power of Apache Cordova by creating your own Apache Cordova cross-platform mobile plugins Who This Book Is For This Learning Path is for JavaScript web developers looking to develop mobile applications using various JavaScript descendent technologies. It is for anyone who wants to learn how to build fast and stylish native mobile app using the skills they already have. If you are already using React on the web, we're confident you'll be able to quickly get up and running with React Native for iOS and Android. See Ionic in action, and find out how it can transform the way you build mobile apps. What You Will Learn Develop, build, run, and deploy great cross-platform mobile applications using Apache Cordova Create complete mobile apps using Apache Cordova that runs on Apple iOS, Google Android, and Windows Phone Create a neat user interface for your mobile application using jQuery Mobile Gain an in-depth understanding of how React Native works behind the scenes Write your own custom native UI components Develop native modules in Objective-C and Java that interact with JavaScript Get to know Ionic by creating three complete mobile applications In Detail A great mobile app is rapidly becoming crucial for a huge range of businesses. With a great app, your customers or your readers don't come to you – you go with them, just a few clicks and swipes away. This Learning Path shows you how to build awesome mobile apps with some of the best tools currently being used by some of the smartest developers in the industry. Taking you through JavaScript impressive development ecosystem – from jQuery Mobile to React, through to Ionic – we'll show you how to put your skills into practice so you can build your next mobile apps with confidence and style. In this Learning Path, from jQuery to React, to Ionic, we'll cover everything you need to start In the first module you'll learn how to get stuck into Apache Cordova and find out how to use it as the key platform for developing your mobile app. It offers an efficient way to develop hybrid apps, which means you won't have to connect to platform specific APIs or use their UI framework, and can instead harness your JavaScript web development skills. Make sure you have your HTML, CSS and jQuery skills at the ready. In Module 2 we'll show you how to take advantage of React Native. It has a reputation for having a steep learning curve, but we'll make it easy for you, making sure you make full use of your existing knowledge and getting you up and running with a sample application. You'll also learn how to create components, how to create multiple screens, as well as using native UI components and accessing native APIs. In the third and final module you'll get started with Ionic. With three practical projects you can build yourself, we've made sure that you'll be learning by doing – which means you'll not only develop new skills much more quickly, but you'll have produced something tangible at the end of it! This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: JavaScript Mobile Application Development by Hazem Saleh Getting Started with React Native by Ethan Holmes and Tom Bray Ionic Framework By Example by Sani Yusuf Style and approach This Learning Path course provides a simple and easy way to build mobile applications in JavaScript descendent technologies such as jQuery, ReactJS, and Ionic.

Mobile Application Development: JavaScript Frameworks

Build amazing cross-platform mobile apps with Ionic, the HTML5 framework that makes modern mobile application development simple About This Book Learn how to use one of the most exciting mobile development frameworks around to build even better apps Follow the featured sample projects to experience Ionic's impressive capabilities Extend your developer skillset to build, test, and launch mobile apps with confidence Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone who wants to see Ionic in action - and find out how it could transform the way they build mobile apps. If you're a JavaScript web developer, you'll be building great projects in no time. What You Will Learn Learn Ionic by creating three complete mobile applications Get to know the Ionic CLI Add basic and advanced features to the Ionic framework Connect an Ionic app with a Firebase back end Integrate PhoneGap plugins with NG-Cordova Test your apps to improve and optimize performance In Detail Change doesn't have to be challenging. Sometimes it can be simple – sometimes it just makes sense. With Ionic, mobile development has never been so simple, so elegant and obvious. By helping developers to harness AngularJS and HTML5 for mobile development, it's the perfect framework for anyone obsessed with performance, and anyone that understands just how important a great user experience really is. This book shows you how to get started with Ionic framework immediately. But it doesn't just give you instructions and then expect you to follow them. Instead it demonstrates what Ionic is capable of through three practical projects you can follow and build yourself. From a basic to-do list app, a London tourist app, to a complete social media app, all three projects have been designed to help you learn Ionic at its very best. From setting up your project to developing on both the server side and front end, and best practices for testing and debugging your projects, you'll quickly become a better mobile developer, delivering high performance mobile apps that look awesome. Ionic Framework by Example is for people who don't want to learn now, build later – it's for people who want to learn and build at the same time – so they can meet today's mobile development challenges head on and deliver better products than anyone else. Style and approach This book isn't just an instruction manual. It doesn't just tell you what to do – it shows you. Featuring three sample projects, it's been created so you can get started with Ionic immediately.

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