Emulator

When it comes to the field of hybrid mobile application development, Ionic and its tool-stack is often an attractive choice. Now there is Ionic Creator to speed up the development process offering an in-browser editor to create user interfaces via drag and drop and supporting basic templates for mobile applications like tabbed layouts etc. In addition, a project created with this tool may be downloaded and started with easy and that’s what I’d like to show in the following short example. ...

Nowadays in the realm of hybrid mobile application development there is a variety of available frameworks worth having a look at. In the following tutorial I’d like to demonstrate the development life-cycle for a complete mobile application using Ionic, Cordova and AngularJS (and others) covering every step from the initial project setup, creating Angular Controllers, Directives, adding Cordova Plug-Ins, running and testing the application in the browser and emulator up to finally running the application on an Android device and assembling files for a release. ...

The integration of gestures into your android app adds some nice functionality and is made very easy using Google’s GestureBuilder application and the integrated GestureLibrary and Gesture Overlay API – so let’s build a sample app. If you need some basic information regarding gestures on android first – take a look at this article. Creating a gesture library First you need to define the gestures that should be captured in the application later. For this reason there’s the GestureBuilder delivered with the Android SDK. You can find the app in the samples directory of your android sdk – e.g. <installation-directory>/android-sdk-linux_86/platforms/android-2.1/samples/GestureBuilder. ...