Modus loves Ionic! As an, we do a lot of hybrid app development for various clients using.

Clients love it because they get to deploy their app to multiple app stores (Google Play, Apple’s App Store, and more) for the price of developing a single app! Developers love it because it’s a single codebase to maintain, and written in the familiar styles of Angular, TypeScript, and JavaScript. When it comes to deploying and testing on a real iOS or Android device, however, things can be a little tricky to set up at first. In particular, we’ve found that there are a lot of moving parts to coordinate in order to do real-time debugging once the app is on a physical device. One of the tools we love using for Ionic development is the (AKA VSCode) editor, and once you get it set up to debug your app while running on an actual device, well then you feel like you can do almost anything!

Things You’ll Need • An Ionic Framework project. If you haven’t already discovered the magic of Ionic, now is the time to dive in! To get started. • Visual Studio Code. Discovering VSCode fell into the “where have you been all my life” category for me. And embrace the awesomeness.

• Android Studio (for Android only). Required to test and deploy the Android version of your app, is the platform for Android development. • XCode for Mac (for iOS only). Required to test and deploy the iOS version of your app, is the platform for Mac and iOS development. • A paid Apple Developer account (for iOS only). In order to deploy an app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod, you’ll need to fork over some cash ($99/year as of this writing)., purchase your subscription, and you’ll have everything you need to run your app natively on your device. Setting Up the Project With your Ionic project set up locally, you’ll need to install the various platforms (mobile operating systems) you want to test: ionic cordova platform add android ionic cordova platform add ios Setting Up the IDE Open up Visual Studio Code and click the Extensions icon on the left-hand side, then search for the extension and install it.

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Before going any further, it’s important to close any open files in the editor. Why close all files? Because Cordova Tools tries to be smart and will only show you configuration options related to the file you currently have open. This usually results in “Cordova” not being an option for the next step. Next, click the Debug icon on the left-hand side and click the gear icon at the top of the Debug panel.