Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework

airport-parking-shop.co.uk

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 101 posts

Re: How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework

#21

Post by fatihpense »

rayv wrote: post #3
feroz1 wrote: post #2

So it took Apple almost as long to approve it as it did for you to build it! Surely Apple can cut down the review time - it's so frustrating.

Especially seeing as Google Play makes it so easy. Nightmare for getting urgent updates out!

From my point of view, in Google Play the trade-off is you get fast updates but you can lose your app and reputation permanently overnight. I see algorithmic solutions are best for Google for most of the time. But as a developer in this case, I feel we are business partners with Google also helping them earn money. But when you are treated with robots without common sense, without human-reasonable answers. It takes your enthusiasm away. I agree with you that waiting one week is a problem. However Google Play's solution isn't that nice if you get bitten.

Re: How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework

#22

Post by Kiro »

Just tested the app on my Samsung Galaxy S3. Seems to be working fine and the transition between results page back to search page is smooth.

The search form is offset to the right though where I suppose it should be centered. So the right side is touching the right edge of the phone while there is blank space on the left. It looks broken. Does anyone know what the problem is? These kind of issues are something I see frequently on mobile sites.

Re: How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework

#23

Post by nazgob »

rayv wrote: post #10
wgx wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI for urgent updates you can request an expedited review from Apple. Saved our asses a couple of times.

Good to know. Wasn't aware of that at all.

It can be quite fast but no guarantee about it. I believe you have limited # of those urgent review requests. It was something like 2 per year.

Re: How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework

#25

Post by benjaminva »

In your screenshot of the "Airport Parking Shop" in the Browser, besides the developer tools, the app itself is wrapped in a GUI that I have not seen before. First I thought it was an ionic served GUI but I couldn't find it when trying out the Tab App example. Could you elaborate more on which tools you used for testing in the browser?

Re: How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework

#26

Post by matthewmacleod »

If there's any sort of app that works with this sort of thing, then yours is probably at the top of the list. The interface is super-simple, people are unlikely to use it often, and so on.

In this case, the cost of developing independent apps for Android and iOS (as well as other platforms, potentially) would probably be too high.

The experience wouldn't be suitable for anything used more intensely though, IMO. Scrolling on iOS is just "not right", in the sense that behaviour is different to native apps. Hover behaviour is different too, and some of the UI elements are also not quite correct (back button). Small things like that add up in a bigger app and cause a frustrating experience.

But it's definitely a good turn-around time, and FWIW I think you've made the right decision to take this approach.

Re: How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework

#28

Post by quarterto »

benjaminva wrote: post #25

In your screenshot of the "Airport Parking Shop" in the Browser, besides the developer tools, the app itself is wrapped in a GUI that I have not seen before. First I thought it was an ionic served GUI but I couldn't find it when trying out the Tab App example. Could you elaborate more on which tools you used for testing in the browser?

That's Chrome Dev Tools' emulation view. https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/device-mode

Re: How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework

#29

Post by benjaminva »

quarterto wrote: post #28
benjaminva wrote: post #25

In your screenshot of the "Airport Parking Shop" in the Browser, besides the developer tools, the app itself is wrapped in a GUI that I have not seen before. First I thought it was an ionic served GUI but I couldn't find it when trying out the Tab App example. Could you elaborate more on which tools you used for testing in the browser?

That's Chrome Dev Tools' emulation view. https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/device-mode

Didn't know about that yet. Thanks!
Post reply on HN