Mobile application development using IonicFramework

Ionic is a powerful HTML5 native app development framework that helps you build native-feeling mobile apps all with web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

They have over 9,000 Stars on GitHub, having added another 1,000 in the last month, and an average of 30,000 Ionic apps are being created each month! CRAZINESS.

You have Node and npm on your machine. Let's  get started with Ionic

npm install -g cordova ionic

Okay now create your application folder, cd into it, then start your app from a template

ionic start myApp tabs
cd myApp
ionic platform add android
ionic build android
ionic emulate android

PhoneGap or Cordova Or Ionic

It used to be easy, just use PhoneGap to compile your app to native.
In 2011 Adobe purchased Nitobi's PhoneGap and the rights to the PhoneGap brand. The code was donated to the Apache Software Foundation under the name Cordova.


My next post will be on publish your application to Google's Play Store.