Using An Oauth 2.0 Service Within An Ionic Mobile App

Previously I demonstrated how to use Oauth in an Ionic Framework 1 Android and iOS mobile application, but with Ionic 2 becoming all the rage, I figured my old guide needed a refresher.

Modern applications are always making use of APIs and data from third party services. The problem is, these remote services require a special kind of authentication to happen in order to work with the data they manage. The most common form of authentication for web services is Oauth.

In my Ionic Framework 1 tutorial I demonstrated Google Oauth, but this time we’re going to see how to use Facebook Oauth in an Ionic 2 application.

Use SQLite In Ionic Instead Of Local Storage

Ionic 2 is becoming all the rage right now because of it using Angular. With the introduction of Angular, comes many differences in the language and framework itself. One of the most critical parts of any mobile application is its ability to save data and have it persisted when the application is launched at a later date. I demonstrated in Ionic Framework 1 how to use SQLite as a storage solution, so I figured it would be a good idea to demonstrate the same using Ionic Framework 2.

Let’s see why it might be a good idea to use SQLite in an Ionic 2 application rather than HTML5 local storage.

Create A Toast Notification In Android With NativeScript

Toast notifications are a common thing in Android applications. They are convenient because you can display a message to a user and have it disappear shortly after without blocking any of the UI that might exist within the application. I already demonstrated how to display these notifications in an Ionic Framework application, but this time I’m changing gears to explain how it is done using Telerik NativeScript.

I wanted to start off by saying that I was inspired to write this article after reading Brad Martin’s post regarding the Snackbar notification in NativeScript. Both are common and useful ways to display notifications in mobile apps.

Navigate Between Pages In An Ionic Android And iOS App

In most scenarios, when developing a mobile application, you’re going to want multiple pages or screens for displaying information. In Ionic Framework 1, you’d use the AngularJS UI-Router to navigate between pages, but things are different when it comes to Angular and Ionic 2. The UI-Router is not present in the latest version of Ionic Framework.

We’re going to take a look at navigating around an Ionic 2 application and see how easy it is.

Find The Application Version In Your NativeScript App

With all the buzz around NativeScript, I figured it was about time that I demonstrate how to access native features of a device without the use of any plugins. To start off slow I decided it might be convenient to see how to obtain the application version number and display it within the application.

To be clear, there are plugins to do all this for you, but the point I’m trying to prove is how easy it is to access core features of iOS and Android with limited knowledge of both.

Fix iOS 9 App Transport Security Issues In NativeScript

Since the release of iOS 9, a ton of stress has been put on mobile developers because of forced changes that Apple put in place. The most common problem developers are facing resides in the App Transport Security (ATS) policies that Apple now requires when accessing insecure resources external from the deployed application.

This article is actually very similar to the one I wrote regarding Ionic Framework and Apache Cordova. The only difference is that this will be more specific to Telerik NativeScript.

Navigate Between Routes In A NativeScript Mobile App

To continue my sprint on Telerik NativeScript related topics, I figured it was time I talk about how to handle navigation to different routes or views within an application. With platforms such as React Native you would use a Navigator component and in platforms such as Ionic Framework you would use the AngularJS UI-Router. With NativeScript, it is even easier to navigate between routes.

In this guide we’re going to look at what it takes to navigate a multiple screen Android and iOS application using NativeScript.