This is my first full Cordova / Ionic app, plus my first published app. I’ve been developing it for about six months now, and released it for iOS and Android last week.
It’s an app that is designed to help photographers and night sky enthusiasts view or photograph an aurora (A.K.A Aurora Australis or Aurora Borealis). With it, they can get push notifications when there might be an aurora visible, as well as viewing up-to-the-minute space weather details, live webcam images, plus local weather to help them determine if it’s worth going out.
The back end was written in PHP, the website in AngularJS (so a VERY large portion of my code worked without modifications) and the Pebble smartwatch app in Javasript, so many functions were very cross-platform.
I wrote rather extensively on the process, and wound up using Firefox to generate screenshots for iOS because the Mac I bought was too slow, so anyone looking for some pointers, especially on iOS development, should take a look.
If you’re interested, check out the app landing page, then check out the iOS version (free or ad-free), and the Android version (free or ad-free)
