In this article we'll be looking at how to get the user's current location using the Geolocation plugin alongside our Ionic and React application(s). With this plugin we'll be able to get the user's latitude, longitude , altitude, and so on. VideoWant to see the video for this article? Check

Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve been trying to do something on an application but you haven’t realised you’re offline? Or even worse, you're connected to the dreaded "lie-fi"? Here's a video version of this article! :)I bet your users have, and part of

Last week I published an early view of how to use Ionic 4 with Vue.js, today I'll be showing you how we can do the same thing with Angular 1.6. Please bare in mind that Ionic 4 is in a super early stage of development and things may

Have you ever wanted to use Ionic with other frameworks than Angular? Now you can! Ionic 4 is in early alpha, so the implementation is likely to change as time goes on, but let's investigate this with Vue.js: If you haven't already, download the Vue CLI and create a

Conceptually, Web Components are a thing of the now. The majority of web frameworks now use a component based model because it's a convenient way to separate concerns, as well as providing reusable, declarative UI. Until recently libraries such as Ionic have had to choose an underlying framework and hook

In this article, we'll be integrating the InAppBrowser plugin inside of our Ionic applications. This will allow the user to view web pages inside of your application, and should not be confused with the BrowserTab plugin as that is specific to one tab only. New Project As always, we'll be

Creating cross platform mobile applications is common place in 2017. There are more frameworks and technologies than ever that allow you to take advantage of a multi-platform approach. Ionic Framework is up there with the top five cross platform frameworks and in this article, we're going to look at getting

Badges are small UI elements that can be used to show bitesized information. This article takes a look at using Badges within your Ionic applications. No dependencies are required for this project. New Project As always, we'll be starting out with a new project: # Create a new Ionic project $ ionic

Notification badges can be extremely useful when creating mobile applications that deal with dynamic data. This feature is often overlooked but can add a lot of power to an application that currently doesn’t use badges. Let’s see how we can add badges to an Ionic 3 application. New

When integrating Google AdMob into your Ionic applications, there are two supported with Ionic Native types. Firstly, AdMobPro which takes royalties after revenue of $1,000 or more. Secondly, AdMobFree which is a free plugin (hence the name) that doesn't require any revenue sharing. We'll be looking at AdMobFree in

Have you ever wanted to communicate across two components when a particular event happens within your application? You can do this by using the Events service within Ionic 3. This article will detail how to use Events and I’ll use an example of making a toast appear when an

Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve been trying to do something on an application but you haven’t realised you’re offline? Or even worse, you're connected to the dreaded "lie-fi"? I bet your users have, and part of making smart mobile applications is

There are a variety of ways to incorporate lazy loading within your Ionic applications. Here's a video version of this article if you prefer: Eager Loading Let's start by looking at how we load a page without lazy loading. Inside of our main app.module.ts we add our Page