Building a PWA with Stencil: Routing and Forms
Part 1: An Introduction to Stencil Part 2: Project Structure and Syntax Part 3: Rendering Layouts Part 4: Routing and Forms (this tutorial) Throughout this series, we have been building a Progressive...
View ArticleAn Early Look at Capacitor (A New Native Bridge for Web Apps)
A short while ago, the Ionic team announced that they were working on a project called “Avocado” which later took on its official moniker of Capacitor. In this article, I want to introduce you to...
View ArticleBuilding a PWA with Stencil: Storage and Services
Part 1: An Introduction to Stencil Part 2: Project Structure and Syntax Part 3: Rendering Layouts Part 4: Routing and Forms Part 5: Storage and Services (this tutorial) Over the past couple of weeks,...
View ArticleDebugging CSS in Ionic: Tips & Tricks
The browser debugging tools are endlessly useful for helping to build your Ionic applications, and debug any issues you come across. In this article, I am going to discuss a few of the tools and...
View ArticleCreating a Flash Message Service in Ionic
You will often run into circumstances in your application where you want to send some kind of alert to the user. You might want to let them know that they have lost their Internet connection, or that a...
View ArticleImproving the UI/UX of an Ionic Component
In this tutorial, we are going to improve upon the flash message service that we created in the last tutorial. I offered some suggestions for improving the service at the end of that tutorial which...
View ArticleUsing Stencil to Create a Custom Web Component with a Public API Method
Last week, we built a flash message component with Angular. The purpose of this component was to allow for a way to easily make a one-line call from anywhere in the application to display a flash...
View ArticleAccessing and Adding Styles to the Host Element in Stencil
In the previous tutorial, we rebuilt a component that was originally designed with Angular. However, instead of using Angular to build it we used Stencil instead to create a generic web component that...
View ArticleRunning Custom Native iOS Code in Ionic with Capacitor
One of the limiting factors of the hybrid application approach is the reliance on a mostly community driven plugin ecosystem to access native functionality with Cordova. Most of the time you can easily...
View ArticlePublishing a Custom iOS Capacitor Plugin on NPM
Earlier this week, I published a tutorial that described how to use Capacitor to run custom iOS native code in Ionic. We built a Capacitor plugin that allowed us to automatically retrieve the latest...
View ArticleAutomatic Scroll to Bottom Chat Interface with Mutation Observers in Ionic
It is common in chat interfaces to have the latest messages displayed at the bottom of the screen, and for the screen to automatically scroll to the latest message when a new one is added. This is a...
View ArticleUsing Google Maps and Geolocation in Ionic with Capacitor
Google Maps integration is consistently one of the most popular features of mobile applications. I’ve published tutorials on how to use Google Maps with Ionic many times in the past, but I wanted to...
View ArticleCreating a Google Maps Web Component with Stencil
Last week, we created a custom Google Maps component for an Ionic/Angular application. Since I have also been creating a lot of Stencil content recently, I think it is fun to see how we could build the...
View ArticlePublishing a Web Component Using Stencil (And Using It Anywhere)
Over the past couple of weeks we have explored creating custom components within Ionic/Angular, and creating custom web components using Stencil. Although both behave very similarly, the key difference...
View ArticleWhat to Expect When Ionic 4 Is Released
The Ionic team has been busy working behind the scenes to finish the release of Ionic 4.x, which we should hopefully see an alpha release of before too long. We’ve talked about the benefits of Ionic 4...
View ArticleStack Based Navigation (Push/Pop) with Ionic Web Components
The introduction of Stencil and Ionic 4.x has led to a much larger focus on using routes for navigation. In the past, Ionic applications relied mostly on using a navigation stack with a push/pop style...
View ArticleCreate Native HTML5 Games with Phaser and Capacitor
Building HTML5 games with Phaser has been somewhat of a hobby of mine over the past few years, and I’ve even written a few tutorials about Phaser with a focus on developing HTML5 games for mobile....
View ArticleUsing Angular Routing with Ionic 4
Recently, I published an article that talked through some of the expected changes for the upcoming Ionic 4.x release. Most of the changes that will be introduced are behind the scenes, and there won’t...
View ArticleImplementing a Master Detail Pattern in Ionic 4 with Angular Routing
Earlier this week, I published an article that discussed how and why you should use Angular routing with Ionic 4.x. To summarise, the main points from that article were that: Angular routing primarily...
View ArticleUsing the Capacitor Filesystem API to Store Photos
When we take a photo on an iOS device, the resulting file is stored inside of a temporary folder called tmp. If we use the Camera API to retrieve a photo, the resulting URI will look like this: If we...
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