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 ...

Preparing an Apache Cordova Android project for release can seem like a difficult task. The documentation for completing such a task is definitely more than it needs to be. The post Signing An Apache Cordova 4.x Android App For Release appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

After recognizing that I develop almost entirely on Ubuntu Linux, a subscriber of mine asked me how to properly set up an Ubuntu machine for Ionic Framework Android development. Now there are a ton of options to handle this task, but not many bare bones solutions. Most solutions on the internet expl...

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 fo...

It was recently requested that I show how to create an Android app from start to finish using a text editor and command line. Although the process isn’t difficult, it might not be so straight forward for a first time developer. The scope of this article should cover the following: How to create a ne...

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 l...

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. The post Add Pin Code Unlock To Your Ionic Framework App appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

If you’re like me, Font Awesome somehow gets included in all of your projects. The graphics are crisp, and look great in all your artwork and applications. My go-to graphic editor is Pixelmator for Mac, and it lets you use Font Awesome with very little effort. The following will show you how to add ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was designed to help you apply your knowledge of AngularJS and Ionic Framework and create a functional app rather than learn new concepts. This tutorial should help you with the following concepts: Make use of the AngularJS $http service for handling HTTP requests Cache HTTP response da...

If you’re like me, you find XML a real pain to deal with, but yet it still seems to exist with various web services. If you’re using Android or AngularJS, these frameworks can’t process XML out of the box, but they can JSON. With the assistance of a PHP powered web server, you can easily transform t...

As a modern developer, at some point in time you’re going to find yourself needing to work with a RESTful API. You’re going to need to make HTTP requests to get data into your app or even change data on a remote database. Lucky for us, making HTTP requests with Ionic Framework is a heck of a lot eas...

Creating clean looking user interfaces in Android can often be challenging. With all the screen resolutions and screen densities that exist for Android, a lot more must be taken into consideration than iOS apps. A nifty trick I figured out is being able to use font glyphs instead of PNG or JPEG imag...

It is always nice to have splash screens in your application. It is a great way to get your branding out, and show that your application is currently loading. No one likes to see a blank white screen for five seconds during launch. Lucky for us, it is incredibly simple to add a splash screen to our ...

The future of mobile app design is in the freemium model. No one wants to risk paying for an application that might stink so as a developer it is a good idea to charge for features in your app rather than the app itself. Using Apache Cordova, Ionic Framework, and the poiuytrez AndroidInAppBilling pl...

Anyone who has worked with a RESTful API using JavaScript knows that testing can be a complete pain if the API owner hasn’t enabled CORS on their server. So what is CORS? According to Wikipedia, it is the following: Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that allows many resources (e.g....

There are roughly seven billion people in the world (7,000,000,000) and roughly 6,500 languages. Lucky for us, Android and iOS does not support all 6,500 of these languages. However, many are supported and this means that when you make an application in your native language, chances are your audienc...

Sending email directly from your mobile application might be critical at some point in time. You may want to create an easy outlet for users to send you feedback about your app without having to sift through your website. Using the Apache Cordova plugin, Email Composer, you can easily send email fro...

So you’ve just made an awesome app and you have no idea how to get the word out. This is a problem most app developers have, so you’re not alone. I’ve released many mobile apps to the app store, most of them Android, but still a diverse collection. It has been tough work, but I’ve established myself...

I often find myself working with legacy database tables that don’t have primary keys or auto increment keys. In addition to this, I always find myself needing to get the latest record for a particular set of data in my database. It is never as easy as just calling a max in the where clause. A subque...

Many APIs such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook require Oauth in order to use. This can get tricky when it comes to mobile because authorization must happen externally in a web browser. To our advantage, we can handle Oauth 2.0 using the InAppBrowser plugin for Apache Cordova. Basic instructions on ...

I am pleased to announce my first Unity3D plugin is now available for download. EZ Analytics for Android offers Unity3D developers a native solution for Google Analytics with as little as two lines of code. The post EZ Analytics for Android Released appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

There is often a scenario where you need to download files from a server onto the Android device. This needs to be done without forcing the user to launch a web browser and have interaction as some of the downloaded data might be private. Let’s use the scenario where you’ve made a game and you have ...

I recently found myself needing to launch external URLs with Ionic Framework. I needed to let my users contact me via my personal website or visit my Twitter page. This is not a task that ends well when trying to execute from an Ionic view. Luckily, with a little help from the Apache Cordova plugin ...

When making an API app or any app that requires authentication it is critical to have a solid sign-in process. A good way to handle user sign-in with Ionic Framework is to make use of the already included ui-router module. The idea behind this is to route between sign in and protected screens as nec...

Recently I was tasked with trying to determine a distinct count between two tables with a many-to-many and one-to-many relationship. More specifically I needed to find out how many users were signing into the system on any given day. This is not to be confused with how many logins a particular user ...

Making great mobile applications used to require a certain type of skill, but with the latest technologies you don’t need much more than basic web design knowledge. With the aid of Apache Cordova, developers can make native API calls directly from JavaScript functions. Pair this with a front-end fra...

Snapper for Digital Ocean has just been released in the Google Play and iTunes app stores. Snapper makes use of the Digital Ocean public API version 2 which features a true RESTful design and improved authentication. This mobile app, like Admate for Chartboost, was created using AngularJS and the Io...

Apple and Google don’t offer much in terms of analytics after an app has been downloaded. Google will take it a step further than Apple and show how many devices have the app installed rather than just downloads, but nothing in terms of usage. To use Google Analytics with Ionic Framework, not much i...