Ionic Portals: Introducing the supercharged web view for native apps

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Ionic Portals offers a supercharged native Web View component for iOS and Android that enables teams to add web-based experiences to native mobile apps. Now, native and web teams can better collaborate while bringing new and existing web experiences to mobile in a safe, controlled way. By Josh Thomas.

The best part? Each Portal can be updated individually. Say you have a web team that manages the FAQ Portal, one that manages the checkout experience, and one that manages a user profile page. The checkout team can safely ship an update to their web experience whenever they want, without disrupting the other web teams or the native release process. Sign up to be notified when this launches this Fall.

The article provides introduction video explaining the concept plus reads about:

  • Why Ionic Portals?
  • How Ionic Portals works
  • iOS configuration
  • Configuring Android
  • Adding a Portal (web app)
  • Beyond the basics

So in essence, this is a huge step in our evolution as a platform and the fulfillment of Ionic’s Web Native vision, one where web developers push the limits of what’s possible with modern web technology and APIs.

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