Learning Ionic

by Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview

With this book, you will learn hybrid mobile application development using Ionic. This book uses Cordova 5.0.0, Ionic CLI 1.5.0, and Ionic 1.0.0 to explain the concepts and build apps.

To begin with, the book helps you understand where Ionic fits in today's world. Then, you will dive deep into Ionic CSS components and Ionic-AngularJS directives and services. You will also examine theming Ionic apps using the built-in SCSS setup.

Next, you will learn to build an Ionic client for a secure REST API, where you will implement user authentication and token-based development. Cordova and ngCordova will be explored, and you will learn how you can integrate device-specific features such as a camera and Geolocation with an Ionic app. We will wrap up the book by building a messaging app, which deals with talking to Firebase (a real-time data store), as well as device features.

By the end of this book, you will be able to develop a hybrid mobile application from start to finish, and generate device-specific installers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785281112
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	07/24/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	388
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Arvind Ravulavaru is a full-stack consultant with over 6 years of experience in software development. For the last 2 years, he has been working extensively on JavaScript, both on the server side and the client side. Prior to that, Arvind worked on big data analytics, cloud provisioning, and orchestration. He has good exposure to various databases and has also developed and architected an application that was built using Java and ASP.NET.
A year and a half ago, Arvind started a blog titled The Jackal of JavaScript (http://thejackalofjavascript.com), where he writes about developing full-stack applications using JavaScript alone as the server-side and client-side programming language. He has written articles on various topics, such as DNA analysis, sentiment analysis with JavaScript, programming Raspberry Pi with JavaScript, and building a node-webkit and a WebRTC-based video chat client, to name a few.
Apart from this, Arvind provides training, empowering companies with the latest and greatest technology available in the market. He also conducts start up workshops, where he teaches rapid prototyping with today's amazing tool stack. Arvind also provides information on how to take ideas to the market in a very short span of time.
He always looks for ways to contribute to the open source community, making this world a better place for developers. As a consultant, Arvind always tries to power amazing business ideas with awesome technology solutions (language-agnostic), moving the human race up the evolution chain.
Arvind recently started his own company in Hyderabad, where he is building products in the Internet of Things space. The aim of the company is to build IoT products for the world at an affordable price so that everyone can enjoy technology that powers lives.
You can reach Arvind on his blog at http://thejackalofjavascript.com.
Arvind has also reviewed Data-oriented Development with AngularJS, Manoj Waikar, Packt Publishing.