How to make SQLite in ionic-native use cordova-sqlite-ext?

[iamgame]

I confirm that the Platform.ready() solution works!

Additionally, I was able to get my sqlite database file to be copied into build’s www with the help of this forum thread:

Copying external files to build folder

I created a basic ionic2 application a few weeks ago (still using beta11) and it all worked fine. I was using a .json file with hardcoded json as a datasource. This json file was copied to the /build folder using the app-bundle task located in the gulptasks folder. Now, I have just created a new ionic2 application and asides from the folder structure that is quite different, gulp seems to be gone completely. So how should I copy files to the /build folder ? Do I have to install gulp and create…

Thanks all for your inputs.