Author: Andrew McGivery

Understanding Tabs In Ionic Framework

December 12, 2014 Andrew McGivery

A very popular pattern on all mobile platforms is the tabbed interface. This interface is especially popular on iOS where it is encouraged by Apple’s design language over a side menu. It has the advantage that the user can see all of the options available to them whereas a side menu’s options are hidden by design.

Ionic has a very simple tabs directive allowing you to implement these kind of interfaces with lots of options for different styles (icons only, text only, text and icon). In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at the ionic-starter-tabs project on GitHub and break it down piece by piece to get a good understanding of how it works.