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Create an App in Ionic Framework

Use the Ionic framework to build an app that can control your hardware or hit any REST API.

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Create an App in Ionic Framework

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index.html

HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no, width=device-width">
  <title></title>

  <link href="lib/ionic/css/ionic.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet">

  <script src="lib/ionic/js/ionic.bundle.js"></script>
  <script src="cordova.js"></script>
  <script src="js/app.js"></script>

</head>

<!--  this tells angularJS what code to run -->
<!--  so it will run the controller indicated by ng-controller in that ng-app -->
<body ng-app="MY_APP" ng-controller="MyFirstAppCtrl">

  <ion-pane>
    <ion-header-bar class="bar-positive">
      <h1 class="title">My First App</h1>
    </ion-header-bar>
    <ion-content>
      temperature: {{temperature}}
      <br><br>

      <!-- this creates a button and when clicked it calls the function
       callFunctionOnTheParticleCloud() in our controller -->
      <div class="padding">
        <button class="button button-block button-positive ion-upload" ng-click="callFunctionOnTheParticleCloud()">
          Tap here to send a POST
        </button>
      </div>

      <br><br>
      <h3>Debug info</h3><br>
      response status: {{responseStatus}} <br>
      response body: {{responseDescription}} <br>


        <ion-refresher
          pulling-text="Pull to send a GET..."
          on-refresh="getVariableFromTheParticleCloud()" >
        </ion-refresher>

    </ion-content>
  </ion-pane>
</body>

</html>

app.js

JavaScript
//we declare here a function so the app variable that runs our code is not a global variable
// but instead is a local variable to the function
(function() {

  //we declare here our app. This is called by index.html with the directive ng-app
  //<body ng-app="MY_APP" ng-controller="ParticleCtrl">
  var app = angular.module('MY_APP', ['ionic'])

  //we declare here our controller. This is run in the index.html by the directive ng-controller
  //<body ng-app="MY_APP" ng-controller="ParticleCtrl">
  app.controller('MyFirstAppCtrl', function($scope, $http) {

    //let's declare some variables
    $scope.temperature = "";
    $scope.responseStatus = "";
    $scope.responseDescription = "";

    //this is the declaration of the function that sends the http request to the Particle Cloud
    $scope.callFunctionOnTheParticleCloud = function() {
      $scope.responseStatus = "Calling a function on the Particle cloud";
      $scope.responseDescription = "";

      var requestVariable = {
        method: 'POST',
        url: 'https://api.particle.io/v1/devices/0123456789abcdef01234567/pool_get_tmp',
        headers: {
          'Authorization': "Bearer 1234"
        },
        data: {
          test: 'test'
        }
      }

      $http(requestVariable).then(function(response) {
        $scope.responseStatus = response.status;
        $scope.responseDescription = response.data;
      }, function(response) {
        $scope.responseStatus = response.data || "Request failed";
        $scope.responseDescription = response.status;
      });
    };

    //this is the declaration of the function that sends the http request to the Particle Cloud
    $scope.getVariableFromTheParticleCloud = function() {
      $scope.responseStatus = "Getting a variable from the Particle cloud";
      $scope.responseDescription = "";

      var getVariable = {
        method: 'GET',
        url: 'https://api.particle.io/v1/devices/0123456789abcdef01234567/pool_tmp',
        headers: {
          'Authorization': "Bearer 1234"
        },
        data: {
          test: 'test'
        }
      }

      $http(getVariable).then(function(response) {
        $scope.responseStatus = response.status;
        $scope.responseDescription = response.data;
        //this statement gets the temperature out of the result json field
        // example: "result":"{\"t\":27.69}"
        //source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7033334/how-to-extract-number-from-a-string-in-javascript
        $scope.temperature = parseInt(response.data.result.replace(/[^0-9\.]/g, ''), 10);

      }, function(response) {
        $scope.responseStatus = response.data || "Request failed";
        $scope.responseDescription = response.status;
      });

      //signal that the refresh is over
      $scope.$broadcast('scroll.refreshComplete');

    };

  });

  app.run(function($ionicPlatform) {
    $ionicPlatform.ready(function() {
      if (window.cordova && window.cordova.plugins.Keyboard) {
        cordova.plugins.Keyboard.hideKeyboardAccessoryBar(true);
        cordova.plugins.Keyboard.disableScroll(true);
      }
      if (window.StatusBar) {
        StatusBar.styleDefault();
      }
    });
  })
}());

Credits

gusgonnet

gusgonnet

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With a decade of Software Engineering experience in IoT, I focus on creating Particle IoT solutions coupled with mobile and web applications

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