What this book covers

Chapter 1, All About Hybrid Mobile Apps and Ionic Framework, covers the introduction to Hybrid Mobile Applications and the technologies used to develop these apps. This chapter will also include all important concepts regarding AngularJS and Apache Cordova, which readers need to know before building Ionic apps.

Chapter 2, Setting up the Environment the Right Way, covers setting up the native development environments for required platforms and then installing Ionic and required dependencies to start building Ionic apps. It will include details about Ionic command-line interface and the important features it provides for rapid development.

Chapter 3, Start Building Your First Ionic App, includes instructions for starting a new project and leveraging Ionic starter templates to bootstrap easily. It also covers the explanation about the design of the app structure and how you can plan to develop your app on top of it.

Chapter 4, Navigation and Routing in an Ionic App, covers how to create routes and layouts for navigation. It will teach the reader about views, Ionic header/footer sections, and different layout components, such as tabs, side menu, and modals. It also includes the basic routes and navigation setup for our sample app.

Chapter 5, Accessorizing Your App with Ionic Components, covers different components, which will be used in building the mobile app. It has two major categories: one is CSS components, which include grid framework and some reusable CSS classes to be used to design UI. The other category is Javascript components, which will facilitate building the business logic and UI interactions for the app.

Chapter 6, Integrating App with Backend Services, includes explanation about creating Ionic services and factories, which will interact with backend services. Ionic Apps can be integrated with all kinds of web services, REST APIs, SOAP services, and even cloud-based mBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Services) such as Parse and Firebase.

Chapter 7, Testing App on Real Devices, covers tools and techniques used to test and debug the app on your actual devices.

Chapter 8, Working with Cordova Plugins - ngCordova, teaches the reader how to use ready-made Cordova plugins, which help the mobile app to talk to native device APIs, such as sensors, camera, and geolocation. It will also explain how to integrate an open source Angular wrapper named ngCordova for cordova plugins into an Ionic App.

Chapter 9, Future of Ionic, includes an introduction to various cloud Ionic services available online under the Ionic.io platform. It also covers about the future of Ionic v2 along with Angular v2 talking about new features and migration path.