Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 4 and Firebase: Hybrid Mobile App Development

by Fu Cheng

Overview

Leverage your existing web development skills to learn the whole cycle of hybrid mobile app development. This edition is fully updated with the changes in Ionic 4, including Stencil, a new framework based on the web components standard. It explains Ionic and Firebase in detail, including how to create hybrid mobile apps using using React and Vue, and run those apps in an internal browser using a wrapper created by Apache Cordova.

Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 4 and Firebase shows you how to focus on developing front-end code, without needing to manage any back-end code or servers.  You'll learn in the context of building a Hacker News client app, which can view top stories in Hacker News, view comments of a story, and add stories to favorites. 

Explore how Ionic 4 uses Angular as the JavaScript framework to easily develop apps using an interface similar to native apps, and how to access Firebase, a real-time database, inweb apps using JavaScript. 

 What You'll Learn

•    Create content-based Ionic mobile apps
  
•    Work with new Ionic 4 compnents like gesture, text, and keyboard controller
  
•    Manage your apps with RxJS&Redux
  

Who This Book Is For
Front-end developers and mobile app developers

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484237755
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	11/02/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Fu Cheng is a full-stack software developer living in Auckland, New Zealand with rich experience in applying best practices in real product development and strong problem solving skills. He is the author of the book Exploring Java 9: Build Modularized Applications in Java, which covers the new features of Java SE 9 and provides a deep dive of Java platform core features. He is also a regular contributor to IBM developerWorks China and InfoQ China, with more than 50 published technical articles covering various technical topics.   

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:  Getting Started.- Chapter 2:  Languages, frameworks, libraries and tools.- Chapter 3: Web Components and Stencil.- Chapter 4: Basic app structure.- Chapter 5: List stories.- Chapter 6: View story.- Chapter 7: View comments.- Chapter 8: User management.- Chapter 9: Manage favorites.- Chapter 10: Share stories.- Chapter 11: Common components.- Chapter 12: Advanced topics.- Chapter 13: End-to-end test and build.- Chapter 14: Publish.- Chapter 15: App monitoring and analysis.