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Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic

You're reading from Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic Building highly interactive mobile apps

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785286056

Length 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Saini

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Getting Started with Ionic 3 FREE CHAPTER

2. Ionic Components

3. Ionic Native and Plugins

4. Ionic Platform and Services

5. Authentication, Authorization, and Security

6. TasteBite App with Firebase

7. Ionic, IOT, and Beacons

8. Ionic + PWA = Magic

Ionic supports PWA

The Ionic team are great fans of the progressive web application, which offers an application-like experience using modern web APIs. Since Ionic 3 is built with web technologies that work perfectly in web browsers, this gives you a huge advantage when building your PWA with Ionic, because if you know how to build an Ionic 3 application, then you can easily build a PWA in a short period of time, you just have to add service workers and a web manifest file. We will be building an offline currency converter with PWA support and will finally host it on Firebase hosting.

What makes a web application a PWA?

In simple words, a PWA is meant to be eventually installed to the user's home screen, which means they will access it exactly like a native application. So users expect the same experience as when using a native application. Since Ionic 3 is designed to create a native application experience with standard web technologies, this is already handled.

PWA should be very performant...

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Authors (1)

Saini

Saini

Gaurav Saini is an open-source enthusiastic and a JavaScript full-stack developer with a vast experience in Node.js, AngularJS, Electron, and Ionic. He is also associated with the Apache Software Foundation, where he is an active contributor and committer to Apache Roller, Apache Fineract, and Apache OFBiz projects. Currently, Gaurav is building a cloud telephony product Veloice, and actively researching IOT and VOIP projects. A major contributor to the AngularJS-based project, Gaurav was a Google Summer of Code Student intern in 2014 and was mentored in 2016 and 2017 by the Mifos Initiative. He has worked on Google Adwords and Analytics in the past and was a semi-finalist in the Google Online Marketing Challenge, 2012. Gaurav was selected as a delegate for the GSOC Summit in 2014 and 2016 in San Francisco and has been a guest lecturer at multiple conferences such as Mifos Techdays, ApacheCON, and Mifos Summit along with many local colleges and institutions.

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