Using Charts In Your Ionic Framework Mobile App

I’m always trying to add more flair to the mobile applications that I develop whether it be through slick user interfaces or graphics. For a while now I’ve wanted to mess around with charts in my mobile applications, but it kept getting pushed to my development back-burner.

I decided to push myself to give it a shot. Using Ionic Framework to build mobile Android and iOS applications, you’re left with a few possibilities for adding charts because so many JavaScript libraries exist. In particular, we’re going to take a look at Chart.js and the AngularJS wrapper, Angular Chart. We’re going to look at this library because not only does it look great, but it plays nice with AngularJS which is what Ionic Framework is built upon.

Add Touch ID Authentication To Your Ionic Framework App

I recently picked up an iPad Air 2 to replace my ancient Android tablet. My first serious iOS device since my iPod Touch. A feature that I’m really growing to love on my iPad Air 2 is the touch id functionality for signing into the device and various applications.

How do we incorporate this touch id functionality into our own iOS applications? More importantly, how do we do this in Ionic Framework? It is not difficult, because we’re lucky to have an Apache Cordova plugin called cordova-plugin-touchid by Lee Crossley that does the work for us.

What Programming Tutorials Do You Want To See?

I’ve been blogging and making programming tutorials for about a year now and have gathered quite a following. You can see the statistics of my first year blogging in a post I recently published.

With this following came a lot of topic suggestions and requests. Some of these came through Twitter, some came through the comments section of other posts I’ve done, and some came through various forum boards. If you’ve been keeping up with me, you’ll know I hate requests that are made through the comments of other posts I’ve done because I like to keep those posts on topic for future readers and not get mangled with side topics.

With that said, I’d like to make this thread an outlet to make requests for future posts.

Using A Pin Dialog In Your Ionic Framework Mobile App

One of my Twitter followers recently asked me how to properly use a pin dialog in their Ionic Framework mobile application. Although I’ve already created a similar article regarding creating a pin unlock screen in an Ionic Framework application, I figured it might be a good idea to show how to do this with an actual dialog instead.

Using the Apache Cordova PinDialog plugin by Paldom we can use native dialogs in our application and accept passwords.

Modify The Badge Number Of An Ionic Framework App

Previously I did a post on Simon Reimler’s blog regarding local notifications with Ionic Framework. However, there is a different kind of notification you can use in your application. In iOS and many different flavors of Android (not all), you have the opportunity to use badge indicators on your launcher icon. Although this doesn’t notify users with a prompt, it will still notify them on their home screen that something needs their attention.

There is a nifty Apache Cordova plugin created by Sebastián Katzer called cordova-plugin-badge that will allow us to easily add this functionality to our Ionic Framework mobile applications.

Monitor Device Battery Status Using Ionic Framework

So you’re making a mobile app using Ionic Framework and you care about the experience your users receive? Maybe you want to control the functionality of certain features based on how much battery the users device has left.

An example of this is, maybe you have your application pulling remote data while the application is open. Maybe you’ve decided that if your users battery is less than 30% you want the user to have to pull-to-refresh in order to preserve battery life.

This kind of battery monitoring can be performed through the cordova-plugin-battery-status plugin by Apache Cordova.

My First Year Of Blogging And The Stats Around It

One year ago from today, I started this code blog. I set off to help people with niche topics that I myself banged my head when trying to solve.

Through the months, I’ve gotten more traffic, followers, comments, and even job offers. Here are the stats to reflect my journey as a blogger.