Mobile App Development With Ionic : Cross-Platform Apps With Ionic, Angular, and Cordova

Learn how to build app store-ready hybrid apps with Ionic, the framework built on top of Apache Cordova (formerly PhoneGap) and Angular. This revised guide shows you how to use Ionic’s tools and services to develop apps with HTML, CSS, and TypeScript, rather than rely on platform-specific solutions found in Android, iOS, and Windows Universal.

Author Chris Griffith takes you step-by-step through Ionic’s powerful collection of UI components, and then helps you use it to build three cross-platform mobile apps. Whether you’re new to this framework or have been working with Ionic 1, this book is ideal for beginning, intermediate, and advanced web developers.

Understand what a hybrid mobile app is, and what comprises a basic Ionic application

Learn how Ionic leverages Apache Cordova, Angular, and TypeScript to create native mobile applications

Create a Firebase-enabled to-do application that stores data across multiple clients

Build a tab-based National Park explorer app with Google Map integration

Develop a weather app with the Darksky weather API and Google’s GeoCode API

Debug and test your app to resolve issues that arise during development

Walk through steps for deploying your app to native app stores

Learn how Ionic can be used to create Progressive Web Apps

Chris Griffith is the User Experience Lead at a home automation and security company and is also an instructor at the University of California, San Diego Extension, teaching mobile application development. He is also an Adobe Community Professional specializing in PhoneGap/Cordova and Experience Design. Chris is regularly invited to speak at conferences such as Fluent, Adobe MAX and ngConf. He has developed several mobile applications, a variety of code-hinters and ConfiGAP for PhoneGap Build. In addition, he has served as a technical reviewer for several publications and written for uxmag.com. In his spare time, Chris spends time with his family, sea kayaking, hiking, and drinking craft beer with friends. You can follow him on Twitter @chrisgriffith or at chrisgriffith.wordpress.com.