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Most enterprises nowadays opt for hybrid mobile app development to make a single mobile app available on multiple mobile platforms in a shorter amount of time. Like web apps, hybrid mobile apps are developed with widely used web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. But the hybrid apps, like platform-specific mobile apps, deliver native look, feel, and user experience. The developers can further build amazing hybrid mobile apps by using a number of frameworks and tools. Ionic Framework is currently one of the widely used HTML5 frameworks for hybrid mobile app development.
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What is the Ionic framework?
Most enterprises nowadays opt for hybrid mobile app development to make a single mobile app available on multiple mobile platforms in a shorter amount of time. Like web apps, hybrid mobile apps are developed with widely used web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. But the hybrid apps, like platform-specific mobile apps, deliver native look, feel, and user experience. The developers can further build amazing hybrid mobile apps by using a number of frameworks and tools. Ionic Framework is currently one of the widely used HTML5 frameworks for hybrid mobile app development.
The open source software development kit (SDK) for hybrid app development was originally developed on top of Apache Cordova and AngularJS. But the latest version of the SDK is developed on top of AngularJS. Ionic Framework makes it easier for developers to build custom hybrid apps using HTML5, CSS3 and Sass by providing a variety of tools and services. Also, the developers can use Ionic to write the mobile app once, and then make it available on multiple mobile platforms through native app stores. But the developers still need to understand various aspects of Ionic Framework to choose the right framework for mobile app development.
U Un nd der erstand standing ing I Im mp por ortan tant t A As spe pects cts of of I Io on nic ic F Fr ra ame mew wo or rk k Write the App Code Once Like other hybrid mobile app development frameworks, Ionic also enables developers to build cross-platform mobile apps by combining HTML5, CSS and Sass. But the developers can use the framework just like CSS. They can write the app code and set the code structure once. They can reuse the single code base to optimize the app for individual mobile platforms like iOS, Android and Windows Mobile. The developers are not required to rewrite the code to make the Ionic app run on multiple platforms. The single and reusable code base helps developers to curtail hybrid mobile app development time and cost significantly.
Built on Top of AngularJS As noted earlier, Ionic Framework is developed on top of a widely used JavaScript library – AngularJS. AngularJS allows developers to keep the code base clean and organized based on model-view-controller (MVC) programming concept. Also, it accelerates app development and testing by providing a built-in dependency injection subsystem. Hence, Ionic helps developers to build amazing hybrid mobile apps by leveraging HTML5, CSS, and AngularJS. The programmers can integrate Ionic into AngularJS seamlessly to set the code structure. At the same time, they can take advantage of AngularJS to build clean and maintainable user interfaces (UIs).
A Variety of Ready-Made Components The developers can accelerate hybrid mobile app development by availing a variety of components provided by Ionic. They can even use the components as the building blocks for the mobile app. For instance, they can use the buttons component to make users understand the action that will occur once they click on the button. The even have option to customize the UI by enhancing the buttons with various attributes. Likewise, the developers can use the gestures component to access and capture basic gestures from HTML by binding to specific events like press, swipe, tap, pinch and rotate. Also, Ionic allows developers to choose from a wide range of components – menus, lists, navigation, searchbar, slides, segment and toolbar – according to their precise needs.