MarketWatch, a financial news and market data app owned by Dow Jones, leverages the Ionic framework to deliver a seamless experience across iOS and Android platforms. The app caters to the MarketWatch.com community and those interested in market news and personal finance, aiming to be a critical resource for financial planning. The development team, with more expertise in web than native development, chose Ionic for its compatibility with web technologies and the ability to reuse existing libraries and plugins. They customized a three-tab template with side menus, ion-lists, slide boxes, and modals, and successfully integrated Urban Airship for notifications and a custom OAuth solution for user connectivity. Challenges included managing plugin updates and syncing their watchlist service, which were addressed with scripts and Angular broadcast events. Despite these hurdles, the team praised Ionic for its performance and plans to add more features, confident in the framework's ability to enhance the app's functionality.