Kategoria: Ionic

  • Easy stream heart rate from WatchOS to Ionic

    In my previous post I showed how to connect the watchOS with a Capacitor based application. This time I want to show how to easily grab HR using HealthKit from watchOS and stream it into Ionic application. The project in this post will be based upon the project on the previous post. If you don’t…

  • Integrate Apple Watch with Ionic App

    Wearables are becoming more and more popular nowadays wth Apple Watch being one of the most popular devices in that category. There are many interesting cases that watch could be used for. Especially when it comes to GPS tracking or health services. In this post I’ll be showing how easy it is to add WatchOS…

  • iOS App Intents with Ionic

    If you’re an iOS developer looking to take advantage of system-level features like Siri and Shortcuts, App Intents offer a simpler and more streamlined approach compared to the older Intents Extensions. While there are some restrictions to keep in mind, implementing App Intents requires less work and is easier than ever before. In this post,…

  • iOS Live Activities with Ionic Capacitor

    With the introduction of iOS 16 version, Apple developed a new feature called Live Activities. The brand new feature can be presented both in Dynamic Island (if available on device) and on the lock screen. Although it’s widget based, it is not a widget itself, restricting access to network or geolocation. Yet ActivityKit allows easily…

  • Sharing content to your app – Android Sharesheet

    This time let’s take a look how to receive data into Android application based on Capacitor. This post is post #3 of series around sharing content. You can find previous post and read how to share a post to iOS and how to customize share view in iOS. tldr; If you want to grab the…

  • Sharing content to your app – iOS custom view

    Define a custom UI for a Share Extension in your Ionic Capacitor mobile application.

  • Sharing content to your Capacitor app

    Adding Capacitor app to Share Sheet Activity View in iOS

  • Capacitor plugin method types

    Capacitor plugins make are responsible for making a connection between your typescript code with a native environment. In many cases a simple call to native environment may not be enough. Capacitor provide 3 types of plugin calls that can be used. In this post I will outline those and present them along some simple examples.…

  • Cordova based plugin with Swift & Kotlin for Ionic

    When you want to add a new Cordova plugin to your Ionic project, most likely you will find examples how to do it in Java and Objective-C. However those days are thankfully way behind us and we can use much more modern languages. The other newcomers problem in Cordova world is that most tutorials show…