Content
Categories
Articles
Understand
Basics
- What is Ionic?
- What is Cordova?
- How do Cordova plugins work?
- How does Ionic Native work?
- Do I have to have a Mac? What Mac should I get?
Ecosystem
Technical Details
package.json vs. config.xml- Webpack? Rollup?
- How does Cordova work on iOS?
- How does the Ionic startup process work?
- When does which code gets executed? (not exactly when you expect)
Ionic CLI
- How
ionic serve works internally (rebuild all files, listen for changes etc.)
- Why does Ionic CLI “wrap” the
cordova commands as ionic cordova?
- Can I use
cordova directly instead of doing ionic cordova?
Install
- How to try out new Ionic CLI versions safely
- How to install Android for Ionic
Start
- How can I create an Ionic project with this specific Ionic Framework version?
- How to manually do what
ionic start is doing?
Develop
- How to fork a Cordova Plugin to improve it (or apply a unmerged Pull Request)
- How to preload lazy loaded pages (or modules) in the background
- How to understand the size of your Ionic app?
- How to add a Cordova plugin, that has no wrapper in ionic-native, to a Ionic project?
- How to restrict your Android app to tablets only?
- How to get Push-Token/RegistrationId from Push plugin?
- How to filter a list?
- How to add Google Analytics to an Ionic App?
- How to use Cordova plugins in Ionic that are not supported by Ionic Native?
- How to open PDFs in Ionic apps
- How to display PDFs in Ionic apps = pdf.js and build a viewer into your app
- How to download PDFs in Ionic apps
- How to use jQuery in a Ionic project?
- How to use
mailto: and tel: links in Ionic on Android and iOS
- How to use
mailto: and tel: links in Ionic (with WKWebView) on Android and iOS
- How to add a database to an Ionic project?
- How to install a specific
cordova-android version that is not released yet?
Interface
- Using Lottie Animations in Ionic
Navigation
Data
Persistence
- How to save stuff in Ionic
- How to save stuff in Ionic and do something useful with it
- What other options for persistence are there?
- How to cache Images locally?
Ionic Native
- What Ionic Components can be replaced by native (and better) plugins?
Ionic and …
- How to change the browser opened by
ionic serve?
Test
Beta Testing
- HockeyApp
- TestFlight + Play Store Beta
Debug
- How to remote debug your app
- How to solve common “Request URL” problems in Ionic
- The many ways to debug a problem with an Ionic app
- Where does Remote Debugging with Chrome / Safari work? Ionic View? Debug Builds? Prod builds?
Common Error Messages
- Error: Could not find gradle wrapper within Android SDK
Optimize
- How to speedup the startup of your Ionic 2 application
Build
Deploy
- How to deploy an Ionic App as a website
- How to upload your Ionic iOS App on Windows?
Update
- How to upgrade to a new Ionic v2 version
- How to update Ionic in an existing project?
- How to upgrade Cordova
- How to Upgrade from Ionic 2 to Ionic 3?
- How to Upgrade from Ionic Native 2 to Ionic Native 3?
- How to upgrade an old Ionic 2 project to the current version?
- How to check if something has to be updated? (Ionic, Ionic CLI, App-Scripts, Cordova etc.)
- How to create a Codepen or Plunkr to recreate your Ionic UI problem
- Writing good forum posts about your specific problem with your Ionic app
