Using A Pin Dialog In Your Ionic Framework Mobile App

One of my Twitter followers recently asked me how to properly use a pin dialog in their Ionic Framework mobile application. Although I’ve already created a similar article regarding creating a pin unlock screen in an Ionic Framework application, I figured it might be a good idea to show how to do this with an actual dialog instead.

Using the Apache Cordova PinDialog plugin by Paldom we can use native dialogs in our application and accept passwords.

Modify The Badge Number Of An Ionic Framework App

Previously I did a post on Simon Reimler’s blog regarding local notifications with Ionic Framework. However, there is a different kind of notification you can use in your application. In iOS and many different flavors of Android (not all), you have the opportunity to use badge indicators on your launcher icon. Although this doesn’t notify users with a prompt, it will still notify them on their home screen that something needs their attention.

There is a nifty Apache Cordova plugin created by Sebastián Katzer called cordova-plugin-badge that will allow us to easily add this functionality to our Ionic Framework mobile applications.

Monitor Device Battery Status Using Ionic Framework

So you’re making a mobile app using Ionic Framework and you care about the experience your users receive? Maybe you want to control the functionality of certain features based on how much battery the users device has left.

An example of this is, maybe you have your application pulling remote data while the application is open. Maybe you’ve decided that if your users battery is less than 30% you want the user to have to pull-to-refresh in order to preserve battery life.

This kind of battery monitoring can be performed through the cordova-plugin-battery-status plugin by Apache Cordova.

My First Year Of Blogging And The Stats Around It

One year ago from today, I started this code blog. I set off to help people with niche topics that I myself banged my head when trying to solve.

Through the months, I’ve gotten more traffic, followers, comments, and even job offers. Here are the stats to reflect my journey as a blogger.

Override The AngularJS Exception Handler

AngularJS is one of the hottest things around right now. Maybe you’re finding yourself getting pretty deep in its greatness and you’re ready to customize how exceptions are handled by default.

Lucky for us there is a way to override the default functionality and do whatever we want when an error happens.

Use RegEx To Analyze Credit Card Numbers In JavaScript

RegEx is a powerful beast. Previously I wrote how to test password strength using JavaScript and regular expressions. This time we’ll take a look at how to check credit card providers based on the credit card number entered. No, this won’t test if a credit card number is legitimate, but it will test if it was entered correctly.

Extending The Gradle Build File In Apache Cordova 5.0+

Apache Cordova 5.0 brought many changes, all of which are for the best, but many of which are a major inconvenience in terms of development or deployment. For example, previously I wrote about whitelisting external resources in Ionic Framework because by default everything is now blacklisted.

This time we’re going to explore the new default build system, Gradle. This build system is nothing new as I’ve written about it in the past, however, it is new when it comes to Apache Cordova and hybrid mobile application development.

You may run into library conflicts or need to do little customizations to your build process. We’re going to see how to do these things. Gradle is for Android only, so if you’re developing for iOS, feel free to move along.