Developing hybrid mobile applications has become very common due to the ease and agility of the multiplatform application development process, and the Ionic Framework is one of the best frameworks available today.
Ionic Framework
- Requirements:
- Apache Ant
- NodeJS
- Java SDK
- Android SDK
- Step 1:
Install the latest version of the Java SDK: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
- Step 2:
Download Apache Ant: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
Extract the files to a folder, for example, “C:\ApacheAnt”
- Step 3:
Download the Android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Extract the files to a folder, e.g. “C:\AndroidSDK”
- Step 4:
Download and install the latest version of NodeJS: http://nodejs.org/
- Step 5:
Now let’s configure the Windows environment variables according to the location where the Android SDK and Apache Ant files were extracted in the previous steps:
In the “PATH” system variable, add the Apache ANT and Android SDK locations, separating them with a semicolon ” ; “.
- Step 6:
Now let’s install Apache Cordova and the Ionic Framework.
Restart the system, then open CMD and type:
npm install -g cordova ionic
Once installed, just run the command to start an Ionic Framework project:
ionic start myApp tabs
That’s it!
For more information, visit the Ionic Framework documentation:
http://ionicframework.com/getting-started/
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