Setting up a platform-specific SDK

Before we start interacting with the device-specific features, we need to have the SDK for that device operating system set up on our local machine. Officially, Ionic supports only iOS, Android, and to a lesser extent Windows phone platforms. Nevertheless, Ionic can be used on any device.

The following are links on how to set up a mobile SDK on your machine.

Unfortunately, you cannot proceed further in this chapter (and book) without setting that up. Let's look at the following links:

• Android: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/5.0.0/guide_platforms_android_index.md.html#Android%20Platform%20Guide

• iOS: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/5.0.0/guide_platforms_ios_index.md.html#iOS%20Platform%20Guide

• Windows Phone 8: http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/5.0.0/guide_platforms_wp8_index.md.html#Windows%20Phone%208%20Platform%20Guide

Note

For other supported OS, you can check out http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/5.0.0/guide_platforms_index.md.html#Platform%20Guides...