Ionic framework for mobile apps - Setup

Hybrid applications are getting popular since we can use the same code for both android and ios applications. Hybrid apps will be written in web programming languages, so it will be no learning curve for a web developer. Otherwise the learning curve of android and ios are comparatively large.So if you have experience in web development hybrid apps are for you.

When not to use Hybrid apps 

If you are planning for a game or graphics intensive app then you will fee some lags in the hybrid apps, because these apps cannot make use of the platform very well. only native application can provide exact performance that is needed for games and memory intensive processes.

When to use Hybrid apps

If you are planning to make a network based application which is getting some information from server or some application which does not make much interaction with the internals of the device can be done perfectly with hybrid apps.

Ionic Framework

Ionic is a Angularjs powered hybrid mobile framework where you can make all kind of mobile applications easily with the help of angularjs. lets dive in and check how to install it.

Follow this link to setup the ionic project

But installing all these dependencies like node,android,ant etc will be kind of pain, but there is a wonderful bash script written by nraboy for ubuntu platform.

Once you run the script follow the commands

Create Ionic Project

Shell

ionic start ExampleProject blank cd ExampleProject ionic platform add android ionic build android ionic emulate android or ionic serve

ionic serve - for seeing in the browser

This will launch the android emulator. The error that i have faced was

rm: could not remove directory (code EACCES)

This was happening because my ExampleProject directory does not had execute permission

use this for assigning permissions recursively for sub directories.

sudo chmod -R 755 /path/your/folder

after this command everything started working properly.

Useful links - How to Get the Ionic Framework Running on Ubuntu

                    - Building the Application

                    - Install android in ubuntu

                    - Test your app


Hey..it is not over !! you might have got an error in the emulator like this

This is caused because of the app time out. for solving this error i have followed this link and rebuilt my application and everything started working perfect !!

Saving Data With IonicFramework

1. From official site 
2. From Nic Raboy
3. From phonegap docs 

Saving data in locally important for small amount of large data. So that even without a database like sqlite you can persist your data.

Getting Started with ngCordova

NgCordova will help to use all the device facilities like camera, locations etc

1. Getting started
2. How to capture and store images

Get started with Drupal Installation in Ubuntu 14.04

Introduction

Drupal is a robust Content Management System that is available in the market. This uses  LAMP server and which includes MySQL and  Apache.It can host blogs, forums, and a variety of other content. It has a huge selection of modules for other functionality, such as advertising, chatbox etc. Even though there are many other CMS are available in the market, still Drupal stands out with its flexibility to adapt to any requirements. If you want to use Drupal then you have to have basic web development knowledge.  Wordpress and Joomla limits to you to stick to their standards but drupal give you the flexibility to design the blog or website as your wish.

Lets check how to install Drupal on a ubuntu 14.04 machine.

Step 1: Install LAMP server

LAMP contains Linux, Apache, Mysql, php. We need to install LAMP before we install Drupal.

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Install tasksel if it is not installed already,

sudo apt-get install tasksel