5 Reasons Why You Should Blog as a Software Developer
Blogging has become way more than a little hobby. Blogging offers great possibilities you can find nowhere else. Especially in the software development area it’s pretty hard to stand out given the...
View ArticleHow to call REST API and Parse JSON with Swift 2.2
When we talk about how to parse JSON with Swift we think about dictionaries and ugly code getting to the values of a REST API response. This processs can be made a lot cleaner and structured using a...
View ArticleThe Complete Ionic Push Notifications Guide
Ionic Push Notifications, once again. My previous articles on this topic had the most comments and questions ever, so as the way of using this has changed again a bit to the current Beta status, we...
View ArticleUsing Ionic 2 SqlStorage For a Simple Evernote Clone
It’s about time to see some Ionic 2 in action, right? Therefore I started my journey with a little Evernote light clone, which is a little app to write notes that shows you a lot of the new features...
View Article10 Myths about Hybrid Development (and how to correct them)
“Hybrid apps are slow” was possible the first and most often heard argument I encountered when the discussion was about going hybrid instead of native. There was and sometimes still is an invisible...
View ArticleDevdactic Challenge #1: Build a Calculator with Ionic
Today we start a new format on Devdactic called “Devdactic Challenge”, and this will be exactly what it looks like: A challenge for everyone around here to apply the learned skills and actually use...
View ArticleHow to Use Ionic 2 Firebase Integration For Cloud Sync and User Signup
Recently the Firebase platform got a complete redesign, including some new features and functions. As it’s still one of the most used cloud backends and with the soon to come Ionic 2 release candidate...
View ArticleDevdactic Challenge #2: Build Tic Tac Toe with Ionic
The first challenge got great feedback on every channel, and I was more than happy to see some awesome submissions of people that applied their knowledge in this little calculator project. Today we...
View ArticleNativeScript Angular 2 Introduction: Why NativeScript Matters
While there is a big buzz around Angular 2 and the Ionic Framework 2, a new force awakens in the shadow of the cross-platform development world. While this force has not yet reached the maturity level...
View Article5 Simple Hacks to Find App Ideas Absolutely Easy
It’s tricky to get started with your next app. You know you want to create something, either just for learning a language or because you want to build some side income (or for thousand other reasons)....
View ArticleHow to Build Ionic 2 Drag and Drop using Dragula
Having drag and drop functionality in your mobile app is very common, but it’s not really inlcuded in the standard Ionic stuff. I looked around and found a great library called Dragula which gives...
View ArticleBuilding Ionic Image Upload With PHP Server
Capturing, storing and uploading images with Ionic is one of the most used functions. Everyone wants to take photos and work with them inside their app, but in my previous guide about using images with...
View ArticleHow To Build Ionic 2 Tinder Cards Using Angular 2 Swing
The Ionic 2 tinder card swipe feature is a highly request UI behaviour and my previous post about the use of it with Ionic 1 was very popular. For Ionic 2 there is not yet an official component from...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Ionic 2 Cheatsheet
The Ionic CLI was and still is awesome. With Ionic 2 coming, it time to update my previous very popular Ionic Framework 1 cheatsheet to include all the great options you currently have to build hybrid...
View ArticleBuilding Your Own Simple RSS Reader with Ionic 2
Parsing RSS data is not a simple task given that most feeds are based on XML. Within this post we will build a simple RSS reader with Ionic 2 using the Yahoo API to transform our feeds into more...
View ArticleSimple Ionic 2 Login with Angular 2
Almost every mobile app nowadays has a login, and using Ionic 2 and Angular it’s pretty easy to craft the UI and logic for a simple Login. My post on simple login with Ionic 1 is one of the most viewed...
View ArticleBuilding a Signature Drawpad using Ionic 2
Some time ago I wrote a tutorial on building a signature pad using Ionic 1, and today we are going to do the same but now it’s time for Ionic 2 and Angular 2! In this tutorial we will use the external...
View ArticleThe Complete Ionic 2 Images Guide (Capture, Store & Upload)
Just recently we saw how to capture, store and upload images with Ionic. This week we update that code to version to to be sure we can perform every action on Ionic 2 images as well! In this article we...
View Article7 Steps to Start, Build and Launch Ionic 2 Apps
The process of starting your next killer Ionic 2 app to finally having your app inside the app store is not always easy. Though, if you split the process into manageable steps and work one by one off...
View ArticleMy 3 Words for 2017
This post is different than the stuff I usually release. Starting in 2017, there will be some more “behind the scenes” content on Devdactic to not only help you along your coding journey but also to...
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