Ionic

Analyse your Ionic App Size

Here’s a tip on analyzing your bundle size, the dependencies your app relies on and how to quickly identify…

Turning Off Change Detection for Performance in Ionic

Angular’s change detection is usually quite great, but I found a case where it’s performance was terrible on a page that contained a long vertical list of horizontal lists of images (think the soundcloud home page where there are lots of…

Fixing App Store upload problem with NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription and PhoneGap Build

After submitting an app to the App Store, Apple added a new requirement in iOS 10 related to any apps using the Camera, Bluetooth, Photo Library etc. Apple will email you about the…

Ionic 2 UI/Alert from a Angular 2 Service

Note: Updated from Beta 8 to Release Candidate.

When you create an Ionic 2 page/component your constructor can inject the NavController like this:

constructor(private nav:NavController) {}

Onscreen keyboard hides text

Found a problem in IOS where the onscreen keyboard would popup for an input element but it would push the content off the screen. This happened with an iPod touch when an ionic modal was full screen.

Crosswalk & network access

I had a problem accessing any external url using Phone Gap build and Crosswalk on Android. The problem turned out to be that Adobe made a new requirement as of cli-5.1.1 to include the whitelist plugin in your config.xml

<!-- New required plugin to allow…