Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases now! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Ionic Cookbook

You're reading from   Ionic Cookbook Over 35 exciting recipes to spice up your application development with Ionic

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785287978
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Hoc Phan Hoc Phan
Author Profile Icon Hoc Phan
Hoc Phan
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Creating Our First App with Ionic FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing States and Navigation 3. Adding Device Features Support 4. Offline Data Storage 5. Handling Gestures and Events 6. App Theme Customization 7. Extending Ionic with Your Own Components 8. User Registration and Authentication 9. Saving and Loading Data Using Firebase 10. Finalizing Your Apps for Different Platforms Index

Creating a tab interface with nested views

This recipe will explain how to work with the Ionic tab interface and expand it for other use cases. For example, it's possible to have additional views (that is, children) within each tab. Since each tab has its own view and state, you can also watch the tab change event. The following is the screenshot of the app:

Creating a tab interface with nested views

In this app, you will learn the following:

  • How to create nested views and states
  • How to create a custom title per view
  • How to watch for state changes and inject your own conditions depending on the new state

You will also use $ionicLoading, which is a very useful directive if you need to temporarily show some content on the screen (that is, a loading indicator).

Getting ready

Since AngularJS UI-Router comes with the Ionic bundle, there is no need to download an external library. You can test this in a web browser as well.

How to do it...

Here are the steps to create a tab interface with nested views:

  1. Create a new app using the blank template...
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime