Today, we’re thrilled to announce the release of Capacitor 4.0 🎉. This new major version brings not only a bunch of bug fixes and improvements to the overall codebase, but also bumps the minimum SDK targets to support new Google Play policies. For folks with existing apps, fear not, upgrading to Capacitor 4.0 is nothing […]
This is a guest post from Simon Grimm, Ionic Developer Expert and educator at the Ionic Academy. Simon runs a YouTube channel where he helps web developers build awesome mobile apps based on their existing skills! What happens when your app goes to the background? How do you react when your app is restored? These […]
Introduction The overwhelming majority of design systems that exist today are built for the web. While this is great for web developers, the web is not the only platform that people use. It doesn’t take a 10x developer to see that mobile apps are just as common as web applications. Yet, so many design systems […]
We’ve been making a lot of buzz about our new VS Code Extension for Ionic Framework. But, you may not know that the extension works with other Capacitor projects as well. In this post, we’ll go over three great features of the Ionic extension that you can leverage for your Capacitor project.
This is a guest post from Grgur Grisogono, Ionic Trusted Partner and Director at Modus Create who loves connecting business with technology. As an avid supporter of all things JavaScript, Grgur enjoys telling stories and anecdotes fueled by the experience of working with dozens of Fortune 1000 companies. He can also talk lengths about sourdough […]
Today we’re excited to announce a new, open-source Capacitor plugin: @capacitor/google-maps. With @capacitor/google-maps, you can embed a native Google maps experience directly into your Capacitor app. Let’s take a quick look at the Google Maps plugin API and how you can add a map to your app.
It’s the modern age of application development. As consumer and business needs for mobile apps continue to grow, organizations that provide technology services must supply integrations and SDKs to keep up with customer demand for mobile app development. Learn how Ionic can partner with your organization to help you build plugins for Capacitor, enabling you […]
Today, I’m excited to share with you new mobile app templates for Capacitor and SolidJS. Solid is a newer frontend framework that has been gaining popularity recently. In the 2021 State of JS survey, Solid had a 90% satisfaction rate as well as excellent starter templates that we can build upon. With Capacitor, developers can […]
Many teams today are struggling to build robust end-to-end tests for their apps, often giving up on testing their native app at all or using a web-only solution that fails to provide an adequate test of the final production native app that will run in users’ hands. At Ionic, we’re making a big push in […]
The second annual Enterprise App Summit was a roaring success! Thanks to all our speakers and sponsors from the Ionic community who attended. For this year’s summit, we developed a cross-platform conference application for attendees which included information about each speaker, an event schedule with a description of each session, and even a swag giveaway […]