Ionic Docs

Ionic is a platform for building and deploying modern mobile applications and micro frontend experiences. Explore our products below, and check out our guides, examples, and references to help you learn to build and ship incredible apps faster than ever.

Get started#

Start building with Ionic’s cross-platform development kit, or import any existing mobile app to build, publish, and update your apps from the cloud with Appflow:

Start a new app

Create a new app via our CLI or visually with our App Wizard

Create app ->

Import an app

Import an existing app into the Appflow dashboard

Import an app ->

Product Documentation Sets#

Mobile DevOps#

Appflow cloud services enable development teams to continuously build, automate, and ship their Ionic apps faster than ever.

Quickstart

Ionic's suite of cloud products for superpowered app development.

Live Updates

Send live updates to your users at the speed of development.

Native Builds

Compile native app binaries in the cloud without build servers.

App Publishing

Publish directly to Testflight, App Store, Google Play, and Play Beta.

Automations

Enable your team to utilize the full CI/CD powers of Appflow.

Cloud CLI

Use your own CI/CD platform for control of Appflow features.

Mobile Micro Frontends#

Portals is a solution for delivering embedded web apps and mobile micro frontend experiences. For apps built with Swift, Kotlin, React Native, or Capacitor.

Portals Overview

Native iOS runtime to bridge JavaScript and Swift or Obj-C.

Portals for iOS

Native iOS runtime to bridge JavaScript and Swift or Obj-C.

Portals for Android

Native Android runtime to bridge JavaScript and Java or Kotlin.

Portals for React Native

Native Android runtime to bridge JavaScript and React Native.

Federated Capacitor

Divide Capacitor apps into smaller micro frontends.

Mobile App Development#

Mobile UI#

Ionic Framework is a mobile UI toolkit that includes mobile-optimized UI controls, interactions, gestures, animations, and integrations with React, Angular, and Vue.

Ionic React

Learn how to build cross-platform mobile app UIs with React.

Ionic Angular

Learn how to build cross-platform mobile app UIs with Angular.

Ionic Vue

Learn how to build cross-platform mobile app UIs with Vue.

Native plugins#

Capacitor enables you to deploy an web application to iOS and Android. Add native functionality and experiences from a collection of open source and premium plugins, solutions, and integrations.