Chapter 5: Building a Multipurpose Calculator Mobile App with Ionic
In the first four chapters, we have built various kinds of web applications with Vue 3. We can also create mobile applications with Vue 3, but we can't create them with Vue 3 alone. We can create mobile apps with mobile app frameworks that use Vue 3 as its base framework. In Chapter 4, Building a Photo Management Desktop App, we built a web app with Vue Router so that we could have multiple pages in our app. Vue Router lets us create apps that are slightly complex.
In this chapter, we will move further from our knowledge of building web apps so that we can start building mobile apps. The app we will build is a calculator app that lets us convert currencies and calculate tips. It will also remember the calculations that we made so we can go back to redo them easily.
In addition, we will cover the following topics:
- Introducing Ionic Vue
- Creating our Ionic Vue mobile app project
- Installing the...