Are you looking for information regarding an ultimate framework to build your next successful mobile app? Well, if your head is nodding in an upside down direction, then let's begin the journey with Ionic Framework.
When you start developing mobile application, it comes to the look and feel. Being a developer, you definitely knowing about the importance of hybrid apps but still, there is a tend to shift to native coding for that feel factor. That's again a myth! No one ever want to look an android app in their new iPhone. This is will result to sit down and create different codes for different platforms.
The traditional mobile app development focused on the native app development only and the trend of mobile apps was also not as famous as it is now where everyone wants to grow their business but the time and money to be invested into the making of mobile apps for the business was quite high. The software developers were meanwhile growing as a community and were trying to use their skills to address all the existing problems and generated problems in the technology world. Those days are gone when you had to work hard because Ionic framework has just emerged to make life easy. The ionic framework is a product that provides an easy environment for the developer to compose the mobile app using web languages like HTML5, Javascript, and CSS at a much lower price.
Since the launch of Ionic in 2013, the open-source hybrid mobile app development framework has gained a lot of momentum due to the constant improvements in its performance and efficiency. The framework is regularly updated and has more than 30,000 stars on its GIT repository. The Ionic forum team on GitHub is active satisfactorily and as it is free to use for all, the popularity of this framework gradually increasing among its fan-base.
But, let's cut this introduction short and go through some reasons why you should choose Ionic framework when developing your mobile app.
Ionic Framework is completely free and Open Source to use. The complete source code is available on GitHub.Being open source, there is such small barriers to entry. Anybody around the world can start creating Mobile Apps with An idea, A computer and an Internet connection. With powerful frameworks like Ionic provided free, almost anybody can create things that can change their lives and the lives of others. Just Imagine, If you had to pay Money for a license for such frameworks, then It would become very difficult to even getting started. One concern when it comes to open source is stability. People worry about open source projects being abandoned, and since there is no direct revenue from the product this can quite often be the case. As It is well backed by Investors, Its Parent Company and Community Force.But when talking about goliath projects like Ionic and Angular, which have a lot of investment dollars and many avenues to create revenue, they are no more likely to go belly up than an enterprise-focused company charging big bucks for their product.Its very strong argument to count as Reasons to choose Ionic framework for mobile app Development.
If you're building an app, it is natural that you are looking for success and think that maybe you'll spread across platforms, either if you start with Android, iOS, Windows Phone or other operating systems. The Ionic framework gives you the opportunity of doing that more easily, because the language makes your app easily converted from one operating system to another.This further comes with another benefit that one needs to learn single language named JavaScript to develop an application on all platforms. This is, of course, the major advantage of Ionic as the use of single code can make you develop applications over various platforms.
If you were to choose a native language, rather than hybrid, you would have to spend a little more time and money into learning the specific programming language for each platform.In comparison with Java and Swift, JavaScript is known as the most commonly used language of developers and hence, this serves as an add-on benefit to this advantage. More to this, it is a developer-friendly language which makes one take away the pain of providing special training to the upcoming developers.
Remember when we said that if you're looking for a beautiful app, Ionic Framework is the way to go? Well, let us tell you why. The CSS and JavaScript features included in Angular will let you customize the app with different buttons, menus, color schemes, etc. Simply by applying derivative and UI elements, the themes are automatically changed when you launch on different platforms when you launch these apps on different platforms giving you native look.
The framework gives a lot of options in this area, because they know the user is attracted to great-looking apps, and already has high standards regarding the UI.
If you've used Ionic then would probably know that Ionic is built on top of the AngularJS framework. Basically, Ionic extends Angular with a bunch of stuff to make building mobile apps with Angular super easy. AngularJS is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks in use today and is backed by Google.
It is commonly used for developing an impressive mobile and web app.Developers can leverage the benefit of this compatibility and incorporate dynamic functionality in the mobile app development. The backend code of the framework allows the mobile apps to be launched in any app store without any setbacks and provide a native feel.
Its quite challenging to come up with an open source productive framework in the world that literally runs on payments but the ionic community is pretty vast and active on social platforms such as blog posts, forums and commenting to address the possible problems faced by the developers while using the framework for the mobile app development. Just like Linux, ionic has a reputation for robust software which is known to many but understood by only a few.
Every programmer needs a helping hand at some point of time during their app development and this Ionic community includes many such helpers. You can also pitch many founders in this community web
If you're not familiar with the term of plugin, it is a piece of code attached to your app that is coded in JavaScript, which allows you to do multiple things because it is close to the native language of the platform you're working on.
Cordova plugins are the best part of Ionic app development. This feature opens up to the door of using native device capabilities beyond the availability to just pure web applications. With the use of Cordova plugins, you can have access to logs, battery, geo location, camera and much more. All this enhances your app's overall performance. The best part is that you can avail all this by writing and adding few simple codes to your application development.
If you fear you can't access something, just search for "Cordova plugin xyz" and I bet there is already a wrapper for what you need. And if really can't find something, you can still develop your own Cordova plugins (but then you need native knowledge).
The reusability of the code is using the features of an existing software to develop the new software with a slight change and healthy output. The Android and iOS app developers do this to avail similar features in different applications.
The testers can easily run the script using Cordova commands for both iOS and Android. The ease of debugging the lengthy codes is provided by the ionic framework and the tester can simply open chrome or safari to test an application's actual performance on iPhone and Android phone.
Since native apps reloads every time when the code is change, Ionic framework gets rid of same. It changes with live reload automatically that is loaded on the server and reflected on the browser/emulator.
This is the classic argument for the higher management level. Compared to developing 2 separate apps for iOS and Android, maintaining and bugfixing in 2 repos you can save a lot of time and money with Ionic. All changes can be done in one place, the same code, same language, same developer! The equation is not that it will only take you 50% of the time due to problems that can still arise from targeting different platforms, but something like 70-80% is realistic for a cross-platform project.
I think it's pretty clear Ionic is the dominant Hybrid mobile development framework today, and it's not surprising considering some of the points We've listed above. You never know how things will play out in the rapidly changing development world, but I think Ionic is well positioned to continue its domination and become even better in the future.
