Presented by Justin Noel
Everyone wants to create an app. There are lots of platforms and cross-platform development costs a lot of money.
The Downsides of Native
- Proficiency in each platform required
- Extensive Development Setup required
Hybrid Apps
- HTML5 that acts like native
- Web wrapped in native layer
- Direct access to native APIs
- Cordova/Phonegap
- Familiar web dev environment
Hybrid Apps have a Bad reputation, but they can be beautiful.
ionic is a beautiful, open source framework for developing hybrid mobile apps with HTML5. They have taken the traditional mobile UI and made it available within the framework.
ionic creator is a WYSIWYG for creating hybrid apps.
There is a lot of setup to develop apps – lots of SDKs and programs to install. ionic has a virtual machine called ionic box with all of the necessary requirements to get started developing.