Today I’m thrilled to announce the release of Build Stacks in Appflow. Appflow users now have much greater control over their cloud build environments, unlocking better native build stability and easier troubleshooting.
Build Stacks are available for use with all Appflow plans. To view all available Build Stacks, refer to the Appflow docs or create a new native build within Appflow.
Exciting times all around! Last week the Angular team shipped their latest major release, version 11.0.0 🎉 .This update includes some great improvements to the great Angular ecosystem, so let’s go over some what this means for you as an Ionic developer.
Before we dive into things, let’s go over how to update to this new release. For most projects you should just have to run ng update and list the dependencies you’ll want to update:
ng update @angular/core @angular/cli
npm install @ionic/angular-toolkit@latest
This updates the core libraries of Angular as well as the CLI and build tools. This also includes an update to the @ionic/angular-toolkit which has a breaking change, making it a 3.0 release. So If you are not upgrading to version 11 of Angular, please stay on @ionic/angular-toolkit@2.
With that out of the way, let’s dive into things!
Apple intentionally designs their products to protect users’ privacy. They’re continually working on new ways to keep personal information safe. So, it’s no surprise that they have introduced a new requirement for developers with apps on the App Store: soon, you must provide information on your app’s data collection practices, including data sent to third-party partners integrated into your app.
Once provided by developers, users can view data linked to them or used to track them on the app’s product page:
This information will be required to submit new apps and app updates to the App Store, starting on December 8, 2020. Since this deadline is close to the holidays and given the App Store shuts down around the holidays each year, the Ionic team recommends responding to the privacy questions and submitting a new app update as soon as possible.
Everyone knows that building performant web apps is critical for retaining happy users. However, with the constant influx of bugs to fix and new features to build, this is easier said than done.
Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to improve your Angular app’s performance substantially. Recently, Stephen Fluin from the Angular team delivered a web.dev conference talk titled “How to stay fast and fresh with Angular,” with tips on improving Angular app startup performance and bundle size. His suggestions were excellent and included several I had never tried before, so I decided to put them to the test in a real Angular app.
The following post reviews Stephen’s Angular performance tips applied through the lens of an Ionic app, Ionifits, a Zenefits-inspired human resources demo app. It showcases various Ionic App Platform technologies, including Ionic Framework, Capacitor, and Ionic Native Enterprise solutions. Try it out on the web, iOS, or Android.
Today I am thrilled to announce the release of Ionic Vue, a native Vue version of Ionic Framework that makes it easy to build apps for iOS, Android, and the web as a Progressive Web App. Ionic Vue has been written to take advantage of all the great new features that recently shipped in Vue 3.
Following the news that the Ionic Vue release candidate has shipped, I’m excited to share a new tutorial: “Your First Ionic App” for Ionic Vue!
If you’ve already tried the Angular or React version of the Build Your First App tutorials, you’ll feel right at home with this new guide. It walks you through the fundamentals of Ionic app development by creating a real app step by step. After completing the tutorial, you’ll transform the Tabs starter app into an interactive photo gallery that runs on the web, iOS, and Android – all from one codebase:
The other week, the Vue team released a major update to VueJs, its 3.0.0 release. We (Ionic) have been following Vue for some time now and keeping an eye out for when their v3 would be ready in order to complete Ionic Vue support. As we stand right now, Ionic Vue is going through its beta release with a release candidate very close. With everything coming together and Ionic devs getting another framework they could use, I thought it would make sense to give an overview of Vue for those who are curious if it’s the right framework for them. Let’s dive in.
Today, we’re thrilled to announce Web Previews in Appflow, the easiest way to share what you’re working on with coworkers, stakeholders, and more.
Unfamiliar with Appflow? It’s a mobile DevOps solution by Ionic that makes it easy to continuously build, deploy, and update mobile app experiences across iOS, Android, and the web. With Appflow, you can fully automate your team’s app development workflow, and go from idea to production in less time.
New to Ionic or Appflow? Try our step-by-step app wizard to build your first app and generate a web preview in minutes.
Web Previews represent the next step in our belief in the web first development strategy, and we’re especially excited for what this feature enables for teams who want a quick and easy way to share pre-production versions of their app, without the overhead and complexity of managing TestFlight, iOS enterprise certs, or any of the more complicated methods of showing off what you’ve built.
Anyone else feeling déjà vu? It feels like not too long ago we were launching the Ionic Vue beta built with Vue 2. Given that the release of Vue 3 is quickly approaching, we thought this would be a perfect time to start preparing Ionic Vue for launch. Today, I am thrilled to announce the new and improved Ionic Vue beta built with Vue 3!
Android and iOS app binaries must be digitally signed with a certificate before they can be installed onto a user’s device. This is required so that users can be confident that the app publisher actually is who they say they are. For iOS applications, these are created on Apple’s developer portal, and can be regenerated. For Android applications, these are typically created locally and up to each developer to safeguard, as they can not be regenerated.
One of the challenges for some developers who used PhoneGap Build was that it was the only place their Android signing keys existed – it was created then lost at some point in time. Apple has a method to regenerate a signing key, so it was never a worry. But since Android keys are created locally, they can NEVER be recreated. Once they are lost, there is no method to recreate them. And, if you do not have them, you cannot properly sign your Android application and submit a new version. Unfortunately, Adobe will not be providing a way to export your Android private key.