IONIC FRAMEWORK

Ionic is comprehensive open-source framework for developing hybrid apps for Smartphone. Software development Kit (SDK) is built on AngularJS with Apache Cordova.   Along with basic web technologies HTML5, CSS3 and Sass, Ionic act as ideal platform for developing hybrid apps. Started in only 2013, it has gained a lot of popularity and now is one of the topmost priorities for hybrid app development. Being new in modern technologies, Ionic supports from Android 4.1 & up and for iOS it is above iOS7. Also it fully supported for Blackberry 10 platform for apps.

INSTALLING IONIC

Ionic runs on Node.js with npm (node package manager) module. So NodeJs, Ant, JDK7, Android SDK, Android studio and Google Chrome are some of the major software’s that you must install before you can start developing your own hybrid mobile app. Installing ionic is series of steps that you should follow to get your objective.

MAJOR COMPONENTS

Ionic offers many tools and components that can quickly help you running code for mobile app development. Ionic Side Menus are the modern menu pattern for apps i.e. they slide from the screen, you can place them accordingly right or left as you choose. Ionic also has default tab directives allowing users to see all the options rather than to clicking on menus every time. This framework also has default directive for infinite scrolling which is quite popular among the modern app design.  Ionic Action Sheet is just slide-up pane that lets the user to choose from multiple set of options available.  Grid Systems, List Items swipeable, Side boxes, push notifications all are part of its components only that guides you towards modern hybrid app development with ease.

Ionic Creator is amazing IDE/GUI tool for drag and drop of creating basic templates for ionic applications. There are also diverse times saving tactics that acts as beneficiary for using ionic for hybrid app development like pull to Refresh and infinite scrolling are some of the most advantageous feature for this platform. With material design included in latest version, it offers the state of the art web technologies for getting results with optimum performance.

AUTHENTICATION AND TESTING

Ionic Framework supports all user authentication and logins from multiple sources without any hassle. One can also use AngularJS techniques solely too as you can use all the features of AngularJS with this framework. Testing in Ionic platform can be done on desktop webkit browsers, iOS simulators, Android Simulator or as a native app on your Smartphone. Command Line Interface (CLI) feature of this framework is used to start, build, run and emulate apps.

Ionic Framework with so many advantages is the one for the futuristic solutions, which can be used for powering the quality apps with your cross platform applications. With one code you have multiple platform app solutions in Android, iOS, Blackberry and so on as Cordova supports all the major OS in the IT field.

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