The Ionic Bitcoin App Starter is a simple ionic project integrated with Angular to provide the best functionality as possible. It is the complete solution to get you started on making your own bitcoin app.
Ionic is a powerful open source HTML5 SDK that helps you build native-feeling mobile apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It is focused mainly on the look and feel, and UI interaction of the app. The Ionic Bitcoin Starter provides you with the necessary features to kick start the development of your own Bitcoin App based on this powerful framework.
Features
- HTML5 Hybrid App built with the Ionic framework and AngularJs.
- Ionic is a powerful HTML5 SDK that helps you build native-feeling mobile apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- AngularJS Directives, Controllers and Services.
- One abstract Layout: side-menu layout.
- Local storage via caching.
- Already built for Android platform using the Ionic Command-Line Interface – Builds are included in the deliverable.
- RSS Feed Reader using AngularJS and x2js.
- Bitcoin Price Index(BPI) Data virtualization with D3.js
- BPI Price Ticker.
- ATM Locator configured with Cordova Geolocation Service.
- News, Price Ticker, BPI converter and ATM Locator are fetching data from JSON sources using AngularJS Factories.
- News article segment opened with InAppBrowser Plugin.
- Social sharing feature.
Preview
The Ionic View App allows you to quickly and easily load, view and test the apps you build with Ionic Framework on a device. Feel free to visit http://view.ionic.io/ and install the ionic view app on your Android or IOS device, then sign up and enter the app id provided below to view the Ionic Bitcoin Starter App.
App ID: 97a1ab8e
RSS Feed Reader
You can download any public Atom, RSS, or Media RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can mash up feeds with your content and other APIs with just a few lines of JavaScript. This makes it easy to quickly integrate feeds on your app.
Price Ticker
Serve real-time bitcoin market data. Coindesk API already preconfigured.
Data virtualization using D3.js
You can accurately represent the market data over different periods.
Bitcoin Price Index Converter
Convert all the supported currencies market value relative to the current value of bitcoin.
ATM Locator
You can use the Google Maps API to serve up the map and the Coin ATM Radar API to get locations for all installed Bitcoin processing ATMs worldwide. Geolocation is used to get user location.
Local Storage
You can cache your app’s data for different amounts of time i.e. News feed, Market data and ATM locations. The caches can be cleared from the settings control.
Cordova Plugins
Below are Cordova plugins integrated in the starter project.
- Console: ensures that console.log() is as useful as it can be.
- Device: defines a global device object, which describes the device’s hardware and software.
- InAppBrowser: provides a web browser view that displays when calling cordova.InAppBrowser.open().
- Splashscreen: displays and hides a splash screen during application launch.
- Statusbar: provides some functions to customize the iOS and Android StatusBar.
- Whitelist: implements a whitelist policy for navigating the application webview on Cordova 4.0
- Geolocation: grabs the current location of the user, or grabs continuous location changes.
- Social sharing: used to share images, text, messages via Facebook, Twitter, Email, SMS, WhatsApp, etc.