Ionic Training Course

Who should attend

Our Ionic training course is aimed at Web and Mobile Developers who want to use Ionic to develop, test and deploy cross-platform native apps using Ionic.

Prerequisites

Delegates should ideally have working experience of web development with HTML and JavaScript. Any experience with Angular or similar frameworks would be beneficial, but is not assumed, nor mandatory.

Live, instructor-led online and on-site training

This Ionic with Cordova course is available for private / custom delivery for your team - face-to-face, on-site at your location of choice, or remotely via MS Teams, Zoom or your own platform - get in touch to find out how we can deliver tailored training which focuses on your project requirements and learning goals.

Ionic Training Syllabus

Where Ionic Fits

• Comparing Ionic to native iOS and Android development
• Single-code-base advantages
• How modular Angular architecture underpins app development
• Typical workflow and tool-chain development
• The importance of scalability, maintainability and testability
• The process of submitting to app stores

Introducing Ionic

• How Ionic and Cordova make web technologies work as a native app
• Installing Node.js, Ionic and Cordova
• Creating projects for iOS, Android and other platforms
• Following best practice for a particular platform

Ionic Components

• Action sheets, Alerts and Badges
• Interactive elements and forms
• Menus, Tabs, Views and Navigation
• Routing, Inputs, Outputs and custom events
• Grids, Cards, Lists and Layout

Adding Native Functionality

• Ionic Native
• Promises and Observables

Accessing Device Features

• Invoking device sensors and capabilities
• Network detection
• Practical memory and resource considerations

Working with Data

• Making calls for external resources
• Passing parameters out to servers
• Persisting and retrieving local data
• Managing state

Debugging Tools and Techniques

• Runtime diagnostics
• Serving to devices and emulators
• Browser-based tools

Theming and Style Guides

• Managing an app theme
• Using SASS variables
• Platform styles
• Icons and Glyphs

The Command Line Interface (CLI)

• Powerful CLI features
• Creating a starter project with the CLI
• Creating parts of a project via commands

Testing in Ionic

• Karma and Protractor
• Selenium Testing Server and Jasmine
• Overview of approaches to testing

Production build

• Development and Production modes
• Configuring an automatic build chain
• Optimizing for production