Ionic 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

Over 30 life-changing recipes to help you create cutting edge hybrid apps with Ionic 2 About This Book • Leverage Ionic 2 and its exciting new features to create cutting edge real-time apps • Work through simple recipes to address your problems directly and solve them effectively • Get examples at each step to guide you on your learning curve Who This Book Is For This book is for front end JavaScript developers who know the basics of JavaScript programming. No prior knowledge of Ionic is required to get the most of this book. What You Will Learn • Create custom UIs using Angular 2 directives • Make the best use of REST APIs to submit forms • Create beautiful animations and graphics in the application • Embed videos and other media into the app • Access native device functionalities such as a camera and maps using ngCordova • Theme the application based on the various platform styles available • Publish your application to a variety of platforms • Leverage Angular 2 events and Ionic-specific events to communicate In Detail Developing real-time apps is the need of the hour and apps that deal with humongous amounts of user data and real-time information that needs to be updated frequently are in high demand. Currently one of the most popular frameworks for this task is Ionic Framework which is undergoing a major makeover. This book will get you started with Ionic and help you create Angular 2 components that interact with templates. From there youll work with Ionic components and find out how to share data efficiently between them. Youll discover how to make the best use of the REST API to handle back-end services and then move on to animating the application to make it look pretty. Youll learn to add in a local push notification in order to test the app. Youll work with Cordova to support native functionalities on both iOS and Android. From there youll get to grips with using the default themes for each platform as well as customizing your own. Finally youll see how best to deploy your app to different platforms. This book will solve all your Ionic-related issues through dedicated recipes that will help you get the best out of Ionic. Style and approach This book is a recipe-based solution to all your Ionic 2 related problems and will help you create cutting edge real-time apps with ease through simple-to-understand step-by-step recipes.