Ionic: An OutSystems Company Reviews & Product Details

With the introduction of Capacitor a few years ago, Ionic has made it even easier to build amazing apps with ease, I also like the new ionic native libraries being added and improved upon Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Interacting with some native features can be har sometimes, also, the distinction between v3 and v5 documentation can be confusing to newer users, upgrade processes can be made a lot simpler too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We find building enterprise and industry-focused apps with Ionic to be cheaper and faster than having to hire and maintain three separate development teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Delivering apps is still challenging and we've just signed up to enterprise support. Hopefully, this assists with the limited documentation in certain areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ionic is one of the most promising platforms that help build applications in one codebase and meets different OS at one single code source making it a prominent source for any business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Due to the emerging technology in the modern world, ionic does not meet all standards of development leaving some gaps and patches, making a developer or a business unsuccessful due to its limitation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is simple to develop mobile apps for Android and iOS using Ionic platform. The latest version is Ionic 5. The UI part is developed using Ionic which is very similar to html. The tags are very simple and easy to code. For the functionality part, we can use Angular or React which are javascript frameworks for front end development. Latest Ionic 5 uses Capacitor instead of Cordova which was used earlier. Capacitor takes care of converting the code written in Ionic and Angular or React to the native mobile apis for Android or iOS so you will have single codebase for Android and iOS so will save time and effort. Also if any native functionality cannot be written in Ionic or Angular or React we can always write plugins which can be written in Java for Android and Swift for iOS and can be integrated in the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Building and running the code takes sometime also debugging the code for errors is time consuming initially but once you get familiarised it will be ok. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Consistent and straightforward integration with GitHub Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a little pricey when converting to NZD, no pay as you go option Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For our startup, managing a single codebase for our frontend applications has made our path to the market much more simple. Ionic has allowed us to focus on getting product/market fit without requiring a large specialized mobile development team to get the job done.

Ionic provides snappy, 60 frames per second animations and easy templating with a very native feel on desktop, iOS, and Android. In fact, we've preferred certain component looks from one platform or another and it's easy to specify a class on an element to push it one way or the other depending on preference.

Appflow is a fantastic add-on product as well (we're on the Growth plan) that simplifies deployment to both app stores. We have Appflow configured in such a way that, with a few clicks, I have a production bundle ready to promote to the production track in both Apple App Store as well as Google Play Store. We haven't used the Web deployment option available inside of Appflow yet but it looks interesting.

Additionally, I have to say that build times are lightning-fast as well. We are running Ionic/Angular and love the 3-4s build times. It makes development just about as real-time as you can get. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ionic's "native" date picker is annoying for almost every user I've personally worked alongside as we're onboarding. However, I do see that a new date picker is in the works for Ionic 6. We are all looking forward to a more calendar-looking date picker that will make it much easier for the scheduling nature of much of our application.

Some elements end up being hard to target for CSS customization due to the shadow DOM implementation. However, for our use case, this hasn't been too much of an issue to overcome. Of course, the advantages to this approach of encapsulating the Ionic web components likely outweigh the disadvantages.

We also ran into an issue regarding the iOS animated header. The implementation didn't work consistently out of the box between iOS and Android/Desktop. We ended up compromising on the design to get our application released. There is likely a solution there. However, it did take more time than we had to try and figure it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One code base, builds for web, ios or android platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing, i love everything product of ionic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using web technologies to build our Ionic app gives us a huge advantage with regards to sharing code across projects and platforms (app and web). We only need to maintain one codebase for the app rather than two when building native apps. We utilise the Angular framework a lot, which powers our app, allowing us to build all the custom components and behaviour we require. The open source community is great for plugins, and the Ionic team is always responsive and helpful whenever we require their expertise. AppFlow is a great tool to build and publish our native binaries - we use it for every release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Native plugins can cause issues when newer OS or devices are released. These can often be hard to manage and debug. The performance of a simple app is pretty decent; however, the initial load time of a complex app can be slower than a native counterpart. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ionic is very close to web development and that's good. Very mature components design and easy to use. Great past and did well. I am hopeful that it will not die. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some reasons behind Ionic that it should be very native. This is the weakness because other technologies are leading on their native to hardware. So Ionic needs to be more native. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Just updating my app flawlessly. It just works! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I miss an option to change the default device size in web preview Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.