Access The Native Device Clipboard In Ionic Framework

There are often times where you would need to copy information from your mobile application to your devices native clipboard. Maybe you are making an address book application and you want to copy a phone number to the clipboard when you click on a contact. Doing this with native code can become a challenge.

Lucky for us, we are using Apache Cordova, and there is a plugin by Verso Solutions called CordovaClipboard. Using this in combination with the AngularJS extension set, ngCordova, can give us clipboard functionality with as little as four lines of code.

The following will explain how to make a simple Ionic Framework mobile application that uses the CordovaClipboard plugin with ngCordova.

Run A Node.js Application On A LAMP Stack Server

If you’ve been keeping up with some of my previous posts, you’ll know that I’ve been making an effort to move away from PHP ZendFramework (or PHP in general) to Node.js. Up until mid December 2014, my personal profile website www.nraboy.com has been using PHP ZendFramework 2, and for whatever reason it would crash my Apache instance constantly.

Since mid December 2014, I’ve made the switch to Express.js framework on top of Node.js. I did a previous post on the topic of Express.js and why I like it, but it is beyond the point for this particular article.

I have a few sites still running PHP and I didn’t want to pay for a new server strictly for Node.js applications. Instead I chose to run LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) side-by-side with Node.js on the same server. The following explains how I did this.

Using Postman To Troubleshoot RESTful API Requests

A follower of my blog recently came to me asking for help with their Magento API service. If you’re unfamiliar with Magento, it is an Ecommerce solution by eBay that uses Oauth 1.0a to handle API requests. If you’ve been keeping up with my blog you’ll notice I had done a previous post on Oauth 1.0a, and it was everything, but fun.

So how does a newbie go about making quick tests to Oauth providers or RESTful APIs without a lot of stress? If you’re using Google Chrome like I am, there is a nifty application called Postman which does very thorough API testing.

Parse An XML Response With Node.js

A while back I wrote an article on how to parse XML using PHP. Since then I’ve slowly been transitioning away from PHP, yet XML continues to be a burden that I can’t get rid of.

Not all APIs return JSON so it is the application developers responsibility to handle the XML. Lucky for us there is a convenient package for Node.js called xml2js that will handle all the parsing for us.

OTP Safe for Chrome Released

If you’ve been keeping up with my work, you’ll remember in 2014 I released an app called OTP Safe for Android and iOS. This was a hybrid application created with Ionic Framework, that manages time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) commonly used for two-factor authentication (2FA).

I’m starting 2015 off with a bang by releasing my first ever Google Chrome extension. OTP Safe for Chrome was designed to mimic the functionality of the iOS and Android versions, but for laptop and desktop computers.

Upload Files To A Remote Server Using Ionic Framework

I was recently asked by one of my subscribers if I knew how to upload files from an Android or iOS device to a remote server using Ionic Framework. My initial response was no, but it didn’t stop me from taking a whack at it.

Using the AngularJS extension set, ngCordova, with Ionic Framework and the Apache Cordova File Transfer plugin, you can easily upload files to a remote server.

Hooks With Apache Cordova Mobile Applications

If you develop Apache Cordova applications long enough, you’re eventually going to notice little things that you feel you can improve in the development / deployment lifecycle. Making use of hooks in your Apache Cordova project can yield many great things for your project.