Use The Android And iOS Camera With Ionic Framework

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.

Show Native Toast Notifications Using Ionic Framework

There are often times where you need to display messages to your users inside your Ionic Framework Android and iOS application. If you’ve been using Ionic for a while, you’re already familiar with the $ionicPopup feature, but what happens if you don’t want to bother the user with interaction?

Using the Toast plugin by Eddy Verbruggen for Apache Cordova, we are able to create native Toast notifications for both iOS and Android that require no user interaction to close.

Implement A Barcode Scanner Using Ionic Framework

I recently found myself needing to scan barcodes in one of my apps. More specifically I needed to scan quick response (QR) codes. After doing some searching I found that ngCordova had an extension for the Apache Cordova plugin BarcodeScanner which has the ability to scan barcodes in the following formats:

• QR Code
• Data Matrix
• UPC E
• UPC A
• EAN 8
• EAN 13
• Code 128
• Code 39
• ITF

Pretty much all the formats anyone would ever need. The plugin itself makes use of the very popular ZXing library.

Manage Files In Android And iOS Using Ionic Framework

You may one day find yourself needing to make an Ionic Framework Android and iOS app that downloads media or in-app purchase content from a remote web server to the users device. Maybe you created an audio app that plays music from the cloud and you decided to cache upcoming songs in your playlist like Google Music does. This will involve downloading the media files to your device in the background so it is ready to go.

Lucky for us, Apache Cordova has a set of File APIs that we can use in our Ionic project for exactly this.

Add Pin Code Unlock To Your Ionic Framework App

I currently have a few Ionic Framework Android and iOS applications on the market. A common request for these apps have been to have a pin code unlock feature for extra security.

Handling Apache Cordova Events With Ionic Framework

There will often come a scenario where you need to determine when your application enters the device background and comes back into the foreground. For example, let’s say we wanted to require a password every time the application is shown. We would need to listen for when the application enters the foreground.

Lucky for us, we can make use of the Apache Cordova event listeners to accomplish this task.

Making iOS In-App Purchases With Ionic Framework

I recently did a post on how to accomplish in-app purchases in Android with Ionic Framework, so this will compliment things from an iOS perspective. Freemium is the new normal for mobile apps. It allows people to download your app for free, but charge them for certain features.

The following should get you started with in-app purchases in your Ionic iOS application.