You can test your app in 3 different ways:
Via Browser
You can test your app on the browser just running some commands on your shell in the project folder:
ng serveOr call that command via npm:
startthen open your browser at that address: http://localhost:4200/. Please use Google Chrome with the Mobile view set on the Console or shrink the window to a mobile size.
Via Ionic DevApp
The Ionic DevApp is a free app that makes it easy to run your Ionic app directly on your iOS or Android device. Download it here, then open on your device:
To run your app on DevApp, you will first need to add a reference to cordova.js in your index.html file. Open up the file at src/index.html and add the following tag to the bottom of the <head> section: <script src=”cordova.js”></script>
Note: Usually executing the “ionic cordova build” command will add this script tag into the index.html file for us. Since we are skipping that step for simplicity’s sake by using DevApp, we have to do it manually ourselves.
Afterward, open a terminal and navigate to your Ionic project. Execute the following:
ionic serve
In DevApp, you should now see the app appear. If it doesn’t, or there are any issues throughout creating this app, see here.
Via Android Studio and xCode
You can test your app using an emulator of Android or iOS (only for Mac). It requires Android Studio installed with a valid Android SDK and, if you have a Mac, also Xcode. To do so, you have 2 ways:
- Via Emulators: Build the Android app compiling the code, then open one of the files contained in the subdirectories of ./platforms/android/app/build/outputs/apk to Android Studio. Or after the build of the iOS App open in Xcode the file ./platforms/ios/Custom Listing App.xcworkspace and then run the apps in the emulators.
- Via real devices: build the apps, then for Android open the apk file to your phone (send it via email, a messaging app, copy it on the memory of your phone, etc..). iOS: connect the phone to your Mac, then follow case 1. and choose at the top bar your phone as Device.
Let us make it for you
If you bought the Building Service we will test for you the Android and iOS apps and we will send you screenshots or questions to check if it will be all ok. Then we will send you the app files.