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Use Font Awesome Glyph Icons With Ionic Framework

October 11, 2014

In a previous article I explained how to use Font Awesome glyph icons in your native Android application. Ionic Framework ships with IonicIcons included, but what if you wanted to include Font Awesome or any other font for that matter?

The following will show you how to include Font Awesome into your Android and iOS Ionic Framework project.

October 10, 2014

Nic Raboy

OTP Safe for Android and iOS has just been released in the Google Play and iTunes app stores. OTP Safe makes use of the time-based one-time password (TOTP) algorithm common for two-factor authentication (2FA) for websites and other applications.

This mobile app, like Snapper for Digital Ocean, was created using AngularJS and Ionic Framework.

October 9, 2014

Nic Raboy

The developers at Ionic Framework are constantly releasing updates to both their CLI and base install. With great new features and fixes in every release, you’re going to find yourself wanting to upgrade frequently. But how does one do this? As of right now there is no magical all in one ionic update command.

These are the steps to update your CLI and base library for a given project.

October 7, 2014

Nic Raboy

As an Android developer, you’ll often run into the scenario where you need to perform tasks and display notifications for your app in the background.

To retain battery power on our users device we are going to run background tasks using a broadcast receiver. This will prevent a thread from constantly running in the background draining the battery quickly over time. Instead, the task will be run on defined intervals of the alarm.

October 4, 2014

Nic Raboy

I’ve been developing Android apps for a few years now. During this time, I’ve had the opportunity to try a huge selection of software, some of which didn’t work as well as I’d hoped and some of which that exceeded my expectations.

Although these tools are my personal preference, I am confident they will change your Android development strategies and how you develop your apps.

October 1, 2014

Nic Raboy

When you have a website that transmits information from a user to your server it is very important to encrypt it. The last thing you want is someones password being sniffed by a malicious user when they register or sign in. By using Secure Socket Layer (SSL), data is encrypted between client and server preventing any malicious users from sniffing your password in plain text.

The following will help you install an SSL certificate to one of your Apache web server virtual hosts.

September 30, 2014

Nic Raboy

Most smart phones on the market have at least one camera if not two. You may want to leverage these cameras to make the next Instagram or SnapChat type application. Lucky for us, the native Android and iOS camera can be easily accessed using Ionic Framework and the AngularJS extension set, ngCordova.

The following will help you add camera functionality into your latest creation.

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