showWhenState: Conditional Elements In Ionic by State

A while back I released an Ionic Ion called ionic-ion-showWhen with the purpose of showing or hiding an element based on the size of the screen.

Swipeable Cards with the Ionic Framework

Swipeable cards are nowadays used very often in mobile applications as a feature to navigate through a list of items/images. In a recent tutorial I explained how to create Tinder Style Cards with Ionic. This time, I will show you how to get swipeable cards like seen in the jelly app. To get this neat […]

Shrinking Headers Like Facebook With the Ionic Framework

Shrinking headers have become very popular in apps like Facebook, where you need to scroll much content. When you start scrolling, the headers disappears very smooth to grant your users more space on the screen to read the actual content.

4 Gulp Tasks That Will Save You Time and Money

If you are using Ionic you have for sure seen that it uses as build system. But Gulp is not Ionic specific, it’s used in many ways today, similar to Grunt. So if you want to know how you can get more out of these building tools, follow along this article.

The Ionic Framework Cheatsheet

So you have played around with the Ionic Framework for a while? You might have recognised that there are some reoccurring command line statements. There are many times when I need a special flag or option, so I made a little Cheatsheet to have all options at hand. On this way I can focus on […]

How To Make A HealthKit App With Ionic and ngCordova

Since the release of the iOS 8 SDK, developers have access to the HealthKit App and its services. Through this service you can read and write body data like weight, height or store a complete sports workout session. To implement this feature in your Ionic app, you can make use of the ngCordova wrapper for […]

Using AngularJS Filters for HTML Parsing

Let’s say you have some plain text in your AngularJS app which you want to display properly to the user. If you just assign your unfiltered text to a scope variable, you won’t have a good time. The user will see unformatted text with links he can not click, and other stuff which looks just […]

Animations For Your Ionic App with Move.js

Apps not just live from a large amount of functions and options they provide (although this is most of the time recommended), but to a big amount the live from the user experience. Designing a great user experience can be quite challenging, so this time I want to show you how to make your app […]

Tinder Style Swipe Cards Optimization in Ionic

Tinder Styled cards have become very popular in the last time due to the success of the Tinder app. In a recent article on Nic’s Blog I explained how to make Tinder style swipe Cards with Ionic. Due to some feedback are here some things you experienced or wanted to know regarding the use of […]

Using Local Notifications In Your Ionic Framework App

Maybe you’re making an app that distributes reminders or requires some kind of notification.  You don’t necessarily need push notifications, but you would still like notifications. This could be a challenging task in native Android and iOS development. Lucky for us, we can make use of the Apache Cordova local notifications plugin created by Sebastian Katzer […]