The Polyglot Developer

Add Touch ID Authentication To An Ionic Mobile App

March 4, 2016

So you want to take advantage of your iOS devices touch id functionality? I don’t blame you because I find my iPad Air 2’s fingerprint reader incredibly useful. Previously I wrote about using touch id for authentication with Ionic Framework 1, but with Ionic 2 being all the rage now, I figured we were due for an update.

We’re going to see how to authenticate our Ionic 2 application using the iOS touch id features and Angular.

March 2, 2016

Nic Raboy

If you’re making a great app chances are you’re going to want to know who else thinks its great. This an be determined by how many people are using your application, what they are doing within the application, or how long they are using your application for. This data can be tracked in iOS and Android using Google Analytics. We are lucky enough to be able to use Google Analytics within an Ionic 2 mobile application.

If you’ve been keeping up with my blog you’ll know I wrote about using Google Analytics in an Ionic Framework 1 application. This time we’re going to see how to use Google Analytics in an Ionic 2 application with Angular.

February 29, 2016

Nic Raboy

Being able to scan a barcode is a convenient way to share bits of data. Whether you’re using QR codes to share contact information or traditional barcodes for product information, being able to scan an image is more convenient than either entering a long code or similar.

Previously I wrote about scanning barcodes using Ionic Framework 1, but with Ionic 2 being all the rage I thought it would be worth revisiting for Angular.

February 28, 2016

Nic Raboy

Today I have finished the final episode of a five-part webinar series on the subject of Couchbase, Express Framework, Angular, and Node.js (CEA2N) application development. This webinar series has been going on for the past five weeks where each week I covered a new topic relative to the stack leading up to a NativeScript mobile application.

Each episode of this webinar was recorded and can be viewed for free here. This is some premium content!

An episode breakdown and project source code can be seen below.

February 26, 2016

Nic Raboy

Not too long ago I wrote about uploading files to a Node.js server that was making use of the Multer middleware. In that scenario the files were saved to the file system and even though I didn’t demonstrate it, in theory the file metadata would be stored in a database. What if you wanted to store the files in a database as a base64 string instead of on the file system?

We’re going to take a look at what it would take to allow file uploads in Node.js and convert them into base64 strings for database storage.

February 24, 2016

Nic Raboy

Recently one of my subscribers asked me if I could refresh the social media sharing article that I wrote for Ionic Framework 1 to work with Ionic 2. Since I’m already in the process of rewriting all my posts to Ionic 2, I figured now is a good time to do so.

In case you hadn’t seen my previous post, it is still worth checking out. In either scenario, the goal we’re going to accomplish here is sharing messages, images, and links via social media outlets on Android and iOS within an Ionic 2 mobile app that uses Angular.

February 23, 2016

Nic Raboy

I’ve written a lot of Ionic Framework and Ionic 2 blog articles and have answered even more questions and troubleshooted more problems. When it comes to Ionic Framework, if I had to estimate, I’d say about 80% of the time the problems were related to the Ionic Service solution that the Ionic team offers.

I’ve written a post similar to this before on the topic of properly testing your Ionic Framework applications, but since it’s alarming how many people are still running into these issues I think it is worth bringing up again.

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