Ionic Capacitor Crash Course

What is Ionic Capacitor?

Capacitor is a spiritual successor to Apache Cordova and Adobe PhoneGap, with inspiration from other popular cross–platform tools like React Native, but focused entirely on enabling modern web apps to run on all major platforms with ease.

Capacitor provides consistent, web–based APIs that enable it to build cross–platform mobile apps that run on iOS, Android, and the Web.

Covert Modern Web App into Mobile App with Capacitor

Capacitor provides a native mobile runtime and API layer for web apps. It does not come with any specific set of UI controls. You convert your new web app or existing modern web app (Angular, React, Vue, or using HTML, CSS & JavaScript) into Cross Platform Mobile App like Android, iOS or Progressive Web App.

Ionic Framework

Ionic is an open source mobile toolkit for building high quality, cross–platform native and web app faster with a single code base, running everywhere with JavaScript and the Web.

Build native–powered app experiences with a collection of open source and premium plugins and integrations that make it easy to add native device functionality to any Ionic app with Ionic Capacitor or Apache Cordova.

Capacitor Plugin

Capacitor automatically generates JavaScript hooks on the client, so most plugins only need to use Swift/Obj–C for iOS and/or Java/Kotlin for Android. Of course, adding custom JavaScript for a plugin is also possible.