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Re:Ionic Marketplace by duggan on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @05:05PM (#10088484)
For anyone else who had to dig around to figure out what Ionic was:

> Ionic is a powerful HTML5 SDK that helps you build native-feeling mobile apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and Javascript. [0]

[0]: http://ionicframework.com/docs/overview/

Re:Ionic Marketplace by TranquilMarmot on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @06:47PM (#10089069)
Almost looks promising... has anybody used it?
Re:Ionic Marketplace by joeyspn on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @07:58PM (#10089316)
Building right now with it several apps (even with webrtc). If you're a webdev (js/angular, css/sass, etc), it's a god-sent solution... The key is adding chromium (crosswalk) in order to get a consistent experience across android devices. iOS does ok...

https://crosswalk-project.org/

Re:Ionic Marketplace by pvilchez on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @10:18PM (#10089708)
Are you using Crosswalk for both iOS and Android, or just for Android? We've been using Ionic + Cordova with pretty good results on iOS so far, but we're starting to shift focus onto the Android offering.
Re:Ionic Marketplace by joeyspn on Thursday August 20, 2015 @06:23AM (#10090941)
Only for Android. iOS' webview is powerful enough for our use cases, and if you need webrtc there are a couple of good cordova plugins.
Re:Ionic Marketplace by frazras on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @08:16PM (#10089364)
I've been using it for the past couple months and it is hands-down the best option for hybrid mobile development
Re:Ionic Marketplace by kageneko on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @07:48PM (#10089283)
I used it for a fairly complex application for Georgia Tech's classroom manager. It worked really well -- notifications, insane authentication and WebView stuff. On Android, speed was an issue on older versions until I used Crosswalk. However, Crosswalk would crash on older phones :/ Development and debugging Ionic was really easy.
Re:Ionic Marketplace by aaqureshi on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @07:25PM (#10089203)
Yes, I used it to create one of my apps. Very satisfied by the feature set provided by them. Very excited about the new changes they will be rolling out from beta soon.
Re:Ionic Marketplace by onion2k on Thursday August 20, 2015 @03:59AM (#10090485)
Yep. I've built several things in it. It's very good.