Developers working on hybrid applications have been using ngCordova with Ionic 1 for some time. Now with Ionic 3, which is built with ES6 and TypeScript, we need to have a wrapper library for ES6 or TypeScript, which is exactly what Ionic Native is. It's a collection of ES5/ES6/TypeScript wrappers built on top of Cordova APIs, which makes it convenient to integrate into Ionic applications. The Ionic team started this project as a feature request from a community member. It started as an experiment and it gained a lot of support due to the fact that integrated plugins were always a pain when it comes to lack of documentation and confusing APIs. These Angularjs wrappers simplified the process of integration and fit with the Angular ...
Ionic Native
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