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Learning Ionic
Learning Ionic

Learning Ionic: Discover a simpler approach to modern mobile application development with Ionic framework and learn how to create elegant hybrid apps with HTML5 and AngularJS

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Learning Ionic

Chapter 2. Welcome to Ionic

In the previous chapter, we saw a couple of key AngularJS features, namely the directives and services. In this chapter, we will understand the big picture of mobile hybrid apps, set up the required software to develop Ionic apps, and finally scaffold a few apps.

The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:

  • Mobile Hybrid Architecture
  • What is Apache Cordova?
  • What is Ionic?
  • Setting up the tools needed to develop and run Ionic apps
  • Working with Ionic templates
  • The Yeoman Ionic Generator

Mobile Hybrid Architecture

Before we start working with Ionic, we need to understand the bigger picture of the Mobile Hybrid platform.

The concept is pretty simple. Almost every mobile operating system (also called Platform when working with Cordova) has an API to develop apps. This API consists of a component named Web View. A Web View is typically a browser that runs inside the scope of a mobile application. This browser runs the HTML, CSS, and JS codes. This means that you can build a web page using the preceding technologies and then execute it inside your app.

You can use the same knowledge of web development to build native-hybrid mobile apps (here, native refers to installing the platform-specific format file on the device after it has been packaged along with the assets), for instance:

  • Android uses Android Application Package (.apk)
  • iOS uses iPhone Application Archive (.ipa)
  • Windows Phone uses Application Package (.xap)

The package/installer consists of a piece of native code that initializes...

What is Apache Cordova?

In simple terms, Cordova is the piece of software that stitches the web application and the native application together. The Apache Cordova website states that:

"Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript."

Apache Cordova does not just stitch the web app with the native app, but it also provides a set of APIs written in JavaScript to interact with the native features of the device. Yes, you can use JavaScript to access your camera, take a picture, and send it in an e-mail. Sounds exciting, right?

To get a better understanding of what is happening, let's take a look at the following image:

What is Apache Cordova?

As you can see, we have a web view where the HTML/CSS/JS code gets executed. This code can be a simple standalone piece of user interface; at best you are making an AJAX request to get some data from a remote server. Or, this code can do much more, like talking to the Bluetooth of the device and getting the list...

What is Ionic?

Ionic is a beautiful, open source, front-end SDK for developing hybrid mobile apps with HTML5. Ionic provides mobile-optimized HTML, CSS, and JS components, as well as gestures and tools for building highly interactive apps.

Ionic is performance efficient with its minimal DOM manipulation and hardware-accelerated transitions as compared to other frameworks in this league. Ionic uses AngularJS as its JavaScript framework.

With the power of AngularJS inside a framework like Ionic, the possibilities are unlimited (you can use any AngularJS component inside Ionic as long as it makes sense in a mobile app). Ionic has a very good integration with Cordova's device API. This means that you can access device APIs using a library like ngCordova and integrate it with the beautiful user interface components of Ionic.

Ionic has its own Command Line Interface (CLI) to scaffold, develop, and deploy Ionic apps. Before we start working with the Ionic CLI, we need to set up a few pieces...

Software setup

Now we are going to set up all the required software needed to develop and run an Ionic app smoothly.

Install Node.js

Since Ionic uses Node.js for its CLI as well as for the build tasks, we will first install the same as follows:

  1. Navigate to https://nodejs.org/.
  2. Click on the Install button on the homepage and an installer for your OS will automatically be downloaded. Or you can navigate to https://nodejs.org/download/ and download a specific copy.
  3. Install Node.js by executing the downloaded installer.

To verify that Node.js has been successfully installed, open a new Terminal (*nix systems) or Prompt (Windows systems) and run the following command:

 node -v

Now you should see the version of Node.js. Now execute the following command:

 npm -v

You should see the npm version:

Install Node.js

npm is a Node Package Manager that we will be using to download various dependencies for our Ionic Project.

Note

You need Node.js only during the development. The version specified in the preceding image is only for...

The platform guide

By the end of this book, we will be building apps that are ready to be deployed on to the device. Since Cordova takes HTML, CSS, and JS code as input and generates a platform-specific installer, you need to have the build environments available on your machine.

Note

Android users can follow the instructions on the Android Platform Guide at http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/edge/guide_platforms_android_index.md.html#Android%20Platform%20Guide to set up SDK on your local machine.

iOS users can follow the instructions from the iOS Platform Guide at http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/edge/guide_platforms_ios_index.md.html#iOS%20Platform%20Guide to set up SDK on your local machine.

You would need an OSX environment to develop iOS apps.

As of today, Ionic supports only Android 4.0+ (although, it works on 2.3 as well) and iOS 6+ mobile platforms. But Cordova supports a few more.

Note

You can check out the other supported platforms here: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/edge/guide_platforms_index...

Mobile Hybrid Architecture


Before we start working with Ionic, we need to understand the bigger picture of the Mobile Hybrid platform.

The concept is pretty simple. Almost every mobile operating system (also called Platform when working with Cordova) has an API to develop apps. This API consists of a component named Web View. A Web View is typically a browser that runs inside the scope of a mobile application. This browser runs the HTML, CSS, and JS codes. This means that you can build a web page using the preceding technologies and then execute it inside your app.

You can use the same knowledge of web development to build native-hybrid mobile apps (here, native refers to installing the platform-specific format file on the device after it has been packaged along with the assets), for instance:

  • Android uses Android Application Package (.apk)

  • iOS uses iPhone Application Archive (.ipa)

  • Windows Phone uses Application Package (.xap)

The package/installer consists of a piece of native code that initializes...

What is Apache Cordova?


In simple terms, Cordova is the piece of software that stitches the web application and the native application together. The Apache Cordova website states that:

"Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript."

Apache Cordova does not just stitch the web app with the native app, but it also provides a set of APIs written in JavaScript to interact with the native features of the device. Yes, you can use JavaScript to access your camera, take a picture, and send it in an e-mail. Sounds exciting, right?

To get a better understanding of what is happening, let's take a look at the following image:

As you can see, we have a web view where the HTML/CSS/JS code gets executed. This code can be a simple standalone piece of user interface; at best you are making an AJAX request to get some data from a remote server. Or, this code can do much more, like talking to the Bluetooth of the device and getting the list of devices in...

What is Ionic?


Ionic is a beautiful, open source, front-end SDK for developing hybrid mobile apps with HTML5. Ionic provides mobile-optimized HTML, CSS, and JS components, as well as gestures and tools for building highly interactive apps.

Ionic is performance efficient with its minimal DOM manipulation and hardware-accelerated transitions as compared to other frameworks in this league. Ionic uses AngularJS as its JavaScript framework.

With the power of AngularJS inside a framework like Ionic, the possibilities are unlimited (you can use any AngularJS component inside Ionic as long as it makes sense in a mobile app). Ionic has a very good integration with Cordova's device API. This means that you can access device APIs using a library like ngCordova and integrate it with the beautiful user interface components of Ionic.

Ionic has its own Command Line Interface (CLI) to scaffold, develop, and deploy Ionic apps. Before we start working with the Ionic CLI, we need to set up a few pieces of software...

Software setup


Now we are going to set up all the required software needed to develop and run an Ionic app smoothly.

Install Node.js

Since Ionic uses Node.js for its CLI as well as for the build tasks, we will first install the same as follows:

  1. Navigate to https://nodejs.org/.

  2. Click on the Install button on the homepage and an installer for your OS will automatically be downloaded. Or you can navigate to https://nodejs.org/download/ and download a specific copy.

  3. Install Node.js by executing the downloaded installer.

To verify that Node.js has been successfully installed, open a new Terminal (*nix systems) or Prompt (Windows systems) and run the following command:

 node -v

Now you should see the version of Node.js. Now execute the following command:

 npm -v

You should see the npm version:

npm is a Node Package Manager that we will be using to download various dependencies for our Ionic Project.

Note

You need Node.js only during the development. The version specified in the preceding image is only...

The platform guide


By the end of this book, we will be building apps that are ready to be deployed on to the device. Since Cordova takes HTML, CSS, and JS code as input and generates a platform-specific installer, you need to have the build environments available on your machine.

Note

Android users can follow the instructions on the Android Platform Guide at http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/edge/guide_platforms_android_index.md.html#Android%20Platform%20Guide to set up SDK on your local machine.

iOS users can follow the instructions from the iOS Platform Guide at http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/edge/guide_platforms_ios_index.md.html#iOS%20Platform%20Guide to set up SDK on your local machine.

You would need an OSX environment to develop iOS apps.

As of today, Ionic supports only Android 4.0+ (although, it works on 2.3 as well) and iOS 6+ mobile platforms. But Cordova supports a few more.

Note

You can check out the other supported platforms here: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/edge/guide_platforms_index...

Hello Ionic


Now that we are done with the software setup, we will scaffold a few Ionic apps.

Ionic has three main/go-to templates using which we can quickly start developing apps:

  • Blank: This is a blank Ionic project with one page

  • Tabs: This is a sample app that is built using Ionic tabs

  • Side menu: This is a sample app that is built to consume side menu driven navigation

To understand the basics of scaffolding, we will start with the blank template.

To keep our learning process clean, we will create a folder structure to work with Ionic projects. Create a folder named ionicApps, and then create a folder inside it called chapter2.

Next, open a new terminal/prompt and change the directory (cd) to the ionicApps folder and from there to chapter2 folder. Now run the following command:

ionic start -a "Example 1" -i app.example.one example1 blank

In the preceding command:

  • -a "Example 1": This is the human-readable name of the app

  • –i app.example.one: This is the app ID/reverse domain name

  • example1: This...

The browser developer tools setup


Before we proceed further, I would recommend setting up the developer tools in your browser in the following format.

Google Chrome

Once the Ionic app is launched, open the developer tools by pressing Cmd + Opt + I on Mac and Ctrl + Shift + I on Windows/Linux. Then click on the last but one icon in the top row, next to the close button as seen in the following screenshot:

This will dock developer tools to the side of the current page. Drag the demarcation line between the browser and the developer tools till you see the view becoming similar to a mobile.

If you click on the Elements tab in the developer tools, you can easily inspect the page and see the output in one go, as shown in the following screenshot:

This view is very helpful for fixing errors and debugging issues.

Mozilla Firefox

If you are a Mozilla Firefox fan, you can achieve the same result as above as well. Once the Ionic app is launched, open developer tools (not Firebug, Firefox's native development...

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This book is intended for those who want to learn how to build hybrid mobile applications using Ionic. It is also ideal for people who want to explore theming for Ionic apps. Prior knowledge of AngularJS is essential to complete this book successfully.

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