Chapter 7. Customizing the App

In the previous chapter, we dug deeply into some more advanced features of Ionic like the popover and the modal features. In this chapter, we will be focusing on customizing an Ionic application. The Ionic SDK comes by default with some great tools that make it easy to customize your application to fit the design guides of your brand. This is thanks to its built-in integration of Gulp for your build process needs and SCSS for CSS preprocessing.

Ionic also has a special Angular provider called $ionicConfigProvider. This provider can be used to do a lot of configuration and customization like specifying what type of animations your application should use or even more advanced stuff like specifying how many cache items you want in your cache. The $ionicConfigProvider also lets you specify these configurations on a global level, or on a platform-by-platform basis.