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Date Published
Author
Matt Netkow
Word count
239
Language
English
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None

Summary

Ionic has released new "Your First Ionic App" tutorials for Angular and React, designed to teach the fundamentals of Ionic app development by guiding users in creating a cross-platform Photo Gallery app. This app allows users to take photos with a device's camera, display them in a grid, and store them permanently on the device, utilizing a single codebase that runs on the web, iOS, and Android through the Ionic Framework UI components. The app is deployed as a native iOS and Android mobile app using Capacitor, the official native app runtime, and its functionality is powered by Capacitor's Camera, Filesystem, and Storage APIs. The tutorials emphasize improving development speed with Live Reload, which aids in writing, building, testing, and deploying code, and is particularly useful for debugging native plugins directly on a device.