Why we are switching to Ionic from native iOS

Posted By : Avilash Choudhary | 21-Jun-2016

We all are enjoy developing native iOS Apps with swift or Objective-C and at the end we have wonderful iOS App for iOS devices such as phones and tablets. But we are not targeting the whole market just the some percentage of users. If you want to increase your user base then you have to go for other platform also, for that you need to hire another resource, to make available your app to the other platforms.After that you will have to maintain the two code bases.

 

Now enter into the world of hybrid development, which will keep you to a single code-base for multiple platforms such as iOS and Android. Hybrid development runs in a browser and it wraps the code so that it runs on mobile operating systems for Android and iOS.

 

Ionic, we use HTML5,CSS with AngularJS and uses Cordova to have access for native device functions. Its free and support is growing day by day. Ionic apps also have good performance,

we can not achieve the same performance as in native apps but they are really good. If you are looking for gaming applications then its best to go for native 

 

Lets talk about the Structure:

While starting you will see many files which might create confusion in the beginning. but after you will be used to it.

Package.json define the NodeJS modules

bower.json  for bower packages

config.xml  all the properties of your project

gulpfile.js for GulpJS tasks 

All these files define the base of your Ionic project.

there are some other directories 

plugins/ all installed cordova plugins

www/ this is the your single code base

 

You will start from index.html or app.js inside www folder, which is the base of your app. The best thing to use Ionic is to create all layout in HTML files with the help of CSS. Suppose you have your website and you want to create the mobile app for that, then you can use the most of HTML of your website into the app when building in Ionic. Its also easier to build layouts in Ionic because it has built-in directives. Another good thing, at the end you will have single code base for multiple platforms.

 

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Avilash Choudhary

Avilash has excellent experience in developing mobile and web applications using jQuery , Javascript and PhoneGap. His hobbies are watching and playing cricket.

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