Now a day most mobile app development belongs to the two most common platforms - Android and iOS. These are native mobile app development that offers high performance, easy hardware control, API integration, and are fully functional. However native app development makes two separate app development processes.
If you know about variations between cross-platform vs native app development, you need to know about an Ionic mobile app development, which also utilizes web technologies. Firstly need to know about the Ionic framework.
What is an Ionic Framework?
Ionic is a mobile app development framework developed in 2013 as an open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development. Ionic offers platform-specific UI through its native components library for iOS as well as Android. Ionic is an npm module, which requires Node.js installed to function as part of a large JavaScript.
Ionic uses front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Angular for app development. For Web development Ionic work to build a cross-platform mobile app with single programming which help web developers to create web pages that run as a device's browser called WebView. For native app development, Ionic Native is used for Cordova plugins developed to support standard APIs and integration.
Pros of the Ionic Framework
- Fast and easy programming and helpful for comparing native iOS/Android applications
- Developed for the browser (instead of native phone functionality, which can debug using a phone)
- Programming for both iOS and Android platform
- No need for Java, Swift, or Objective-C, you can use Angular, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as you require
- Lost of UI easy-to-use components such as cards, buttons, toggles, segments, models, lists, row/column grid, and more.
Cons of the Ionic Framework
- Native plugins are not stable and can conflict with other
- Challenging debugging process of application and take time due to unclear errors
- Build can crash reportedly without no reason
- Local data storage is exploited and not accessible to the public
- Does not support Hot reloading instead depends on live reloading, which takes time and process
Conclusion
Comparatively to other app development frameworks, Ionic has some advantages and disadvantages with a good technology that offers a full-fledged mobile application that is faster in comparison to traditional native app development. The most advantageous feature of this framework is no need to use Java/Swift/Objective-C as a native programming language and also can use standard web development like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Angular.
If you will know about Ionic app development technology and its advantages and disadvantages, you can assuredly choose the best mobile app development technology for your mobile application solution.
