Archive of: 2016
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Implementing social media sharing in Ionic applications
Tuesday 27th December, 2016 - 1:32pmIn the following tutorial I'm going to take you through using the Ionic Native Social Sharing plugin to allow content in your Ionic applications to be shared across different social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter....
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Online and offline syncing of data in Ionic using PouchDB & CouchDB
Thursday 22nd December, 2016 - 11:15pmIn the following tutorial we're going to explore how we can synchronise data between a PouchDB database running on an Ionic app and a remote CouchDB database which will be running on our desktop computer.
We'll use the application that we created in part 1 & part 2 of the PouchDB tutorial as a base to build on. If you haven't read that tutorial, and aren't familiar with the code that was used, I suggest you go there now before proceeding with this tutorial...
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Parsing XML, CSV and TSV files with Ionic
Sunday 18th December, 2016 - 5:34pmContinuing with our exploration into handling data within Ionic project, this tutorial focuses on how to import and parse the following data formats: XML, CSV and TSV...
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Using PHP and MySQL with Ionic
Thursday 15th December, 2016 - 1:47amIn this tutorial we're going to look into using PHP and MySQL to store and retrieve data for use with our Ionic apps...
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Using PouchDB with Ionic - part 2
Sunday 11th December, 2016 - 6:08pmIn part 2 of this tutorial we continue working with PouchDB and Ionic to create the component logic, styling and templating for our Comics oriented app...
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Using PouchDB with Ionic - part 1
Saturday 10th December, 2016 - 5:08pmIn this tutorial we're going to explore how PouchDB can be integrated with Ionic to provide a client-side database solution for use in our mobile apps...
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Ionic 2 error reporting tools
Thursday 1st December, 2016 - 6:11pmYou know the drill - hours spent developing your app, crafting your code to perfection then publishing that to your device only to be greeted with the dreaded "white screen of death" - and not being able to figure out what is causing that.
Well, not until Ionic 2 RC3 that is...
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Resolving Ionic serve no index.html in www folder error
Saturday 26th November, 2016 - 2:51pmIf you've recently upgraded to Ionic 2 RC 3 you might experience errors similar to the following when trying to run the ionic serve command:
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/projects/myApp/www/index.html'
Fixing this is, thankfully, quite simple.
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Basic navigation in Ionic
Saturday 26th November, 2016 - 1:00pmNavigation has changed significantly since Ionic v1; the framework now brings with it the concept of the navigation stack...
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Template strings & interpolation
Tuesday 22nd November, 2016 - 8:56pmTypeScript brings with it a host of features and functionality not found in pre-ES6 JavaScript, the most underrated of these, in my humble opinion, being that of template strings and interpolation.
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Ionic 2 technologies
Sunday 20th November, 2016 - 9:18pmIonic 2 is built on a range of software tools from modern front-end development frameworks and programming languages to an extensive plugin API and powerful command line utilities.
In this post we'll cover the core technologies used by Ionic 2 and why they matter to you as a mobile app developer.