{"id":289,"date":"2015-03-17T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=289"},"modified":"2017-01-09T07:02:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T07:02:53","slug":"platform-continuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ionic.io\/blog\/platform-continuity","title":{"rendered":"Platform Continuity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think about how it feels when you open up a particularly well designed iOS or Android app. The entire experience is predictable and clear; everything functions according to your expectations. <\/p>\n

To achieve a user experience this seamless and comfortable, you’ll need to design your app according to the style guidelines of each major mobile platform. Users expect apps to look familiar on their mobile platform of choice: a centered header on iOS, a left-aligned header on Android; tabs on the bottom on iOS, and on the top on Android; rounded icons in iOS, etc. Until now, accomplishing this was time-consuming, expensive, and downright difficult.<\/p>\n

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From a functionality standpoint, the \u201cwrite once and run anywhere\u201d mantra still applies, but from a design standpoint, it\u2019s more akin to \u201cwrite once; check the platform style guidelines; write some more; check again; deploy anywhere.\u201d That\u2019s pretty overwhelming when you\u2019re trying to write an app for two or more platforms.<\/p>\n

Ionic helps to solve this problem out of the box. Design is a critically important part of an app; it\u2019s what makes an app attractive and enjoyable to use. Ionic helps developers build beautiful apps more quickly, and by incorporating Platform Continuity<\/a> into Ionic, we provide developers with the tools to create clearly structured apps whose design elements and functionality meet users\u2019 expectations, no matter which platform they\u2019re using. <\/p>\n

Ionic allows you to customize settings, such as headers, tabs, transitions, toggles, action sheets, back-buttons, checkboxes, nav-buttons, and fonts, for each major platform. For example, now Ionic checkboxes automatically look like iOS checkboxes on iOS and Android checkboxes on Android. Our action sheet below looks significantly different on iOS than on Android. All of this happens automatically and is customizable.<\/p>\n

Going forward, our criteria for acceptance into the Ionic Showcase<\/a> will emphasize platform continuity, in addition to beautiful design and unique functionality. We look forward to seeing what you build!<\/p>\n

Hear more about platform continuity in Adam\u2019s talk at ng-conf<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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