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Re: Build hybrid apps with the Ionic Creator

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Post by tootie » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 1:46 PM UTC

pbreit wrote: post #22

Surely this approach has gotta get some serious uptake soon/finally? For your average CRUD app, coding in iOS and Android (and web) makes little sense. Titanium was promising before it made the big shift to Alloy. Jquery Mobile is oddly "meh". Ionic looks quite nice so far. I see 37 Signals is making this approach work, too (albeit with different tools): http://signalvnoise.com/posts/3766-hybrid-how-we-took-baseca...

I don't think jquery mobile was ever a good idea for making hybrid apps. Aside from the name, it wasn't nearly as flexible as original jquery. There's also a distinction between what's needed for a mobile site vs a hyrbid app. If the .js files are baked into the app, bandwidth and latency are non-issues. What you need is to optimize performance only.

Re: Build hybrid apps with the Ionic Creator

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Post by infomofo » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:38 PM UTC

tootie wrote: post #18

JonnieCache wrote: post #4

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It's angular, with cordova/phonegap packaged alongside it, and then a whole load of ionic sauce in the form of css and angular directives to make the thing work on mobiles in a polished way. They're doing stuff like catching every touch event and doing debouncing, while actually improving performance. Some of it is quite impressive. I'd recommend it if you need to make an angular app look and behave like a native app…

If you want flexible, you can just use vanilla Cordova. There's always a trade-off between features and flexibility.

i'm personally a fan of the chrome mobile app framework https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/mobile-chrome-apps. It's on top of cordova as well and provides some additional functionality from the chrome extension framework, like oauth support and some additional security features.

Re: Build hybrid apps with the Ionic Creator

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Post by mot0rola » Sat, Aug 02, 2014, 4:19 AM UTC

tootie wrote: post #19

yesimahuman wrote: post #12

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Hey, one of the founders here. :) Rest assured our company is financially strong and Ionic will only be getting more love going forwards. We did raise some money recently , but we actually have some nice revenue already (imagine that!). Unlike our past products, we aren't trying to build a company around just Creator. It's a tool to help existing Ionic devs and train the future of Ionic devs, and so we want to keep i…

That's awesome. I'm such a hater of the iOS dev requirements so I really hope that the hybrid app space really takes off. Do you have any plans for mitigating JavaScript performance on mobile devices? Do you see any movement in building cross-paltform plugins?

JavaScript is fairly fast, the DOM is what is slow in my experience. I too am hopeful that the hybrid app space takes off as well.

It would be really cool to see Ionic have some support for windows. Then I could really see this being adopted at my company.