Cordova WKWebView Plugin

Great work by the Ionic folks: One of our awesome engineers has been working hard to bring WKWebView to Ionic apps and is working to bring the new plugin into Cordova! The new plugin will work with both Ionic V1 and Ionic V2 apps. In fact, it should work with any iOS Cordova build! That …

Hybrid Apps with Ionic Framework

At the most recent #fronteersbe meetup I gave a talk entitled “Hybrid Apps with Ionic Framework”. You can check out the slides embedded below. Slides with presenter notes (yet without animated gifs) – which might be a better option if you didn’t attend the talk – are also available.

ionic emulate “[__NSArrayM localizedDescription]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fd64840e790”

Got this error when running ionic emulate: 2015-03-16 11:13:24.112 ios-sim[50548:9106309] stderrPath: /Users/bramus/Projects/ionic/todos/platforms/ios/cordova/console.log 2015-03-16 11:13:24.113 ios-sim[50548:9106309] stdoutPath: /Users/bramus/Projects/ionic/todos/platforms/ios/cordova/console.log 2015-03-16 11:13:24.140 ios-sim[50548:9106309] -[__NSArrayM localizedDescription]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fec20d08400 2015-03-16 11:13:24.140 ios-sim[50548:9106309] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInvalidArgumentException’, reason: ‘-[__NSArrayM localizedDescription]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x7fec20d08400’ *** First throw call stack: ( 0 …

In love with Ionic Framework

UPDATE: Want to get a solid introduction to Ionic? I recommend reading Learning Ionic, a book I tech reviewed. Ionic offers a library of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Built with Sass and optimized for AngularJS. Whilst Sass is just an extra (you don’t really need it), the true …

ngCordova – Cordova with the power of AngularJS

module.controller(‘PictureCtrl’, function($scope, $cordovaCamera) { $scope.takePicture = function() { $cordovaCamera.getPicture({ // See all the possible Camera options from the Camera docs [1]: /// https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/blob/master/doc/index.md#cameraoptions }).then(function(imageData) { // Success! Image data is here }, function(err) { // An error occured. Show a message to the user }); } }); ngCordova is a set of AngularJS extensions on …

Cordova client tool

The command line tool to build, deploy and manage Cordova-based applications. Once installed — via npm — you get to do stuff like this: cordova create ~/KewlApp cd ~/KewlApp cordova platform add ios cordova platform add android cordova plugin add http://example.org/Kewlio-1.2.3.tar.gz cordova build Great to see how the Cordova Platform (formerly known as PhoneGap — …