Overall Satisfaction with Ionic
We used Ionic to quickly create multi-device mobile applications using a common (Angular) code base. We have a cloud-based solution that utilizes a mobile application for account inquiry and user interaction.
- Nice command line interface for repetitive development and deployment tasks.
- Realtime preview (in web browser) during development.
- Easy to update and keep current (open source) via command line.
- Provides nice set of mobile widgets for consistency across devices.
- Slightly better documentation when it comes to command line build troubleshooting.
- Increased widget library (even though it's much improved today).
- Native chart/graphing widgets.
- Low cost
- Ease of use
- Large online user base and solid documentation
- The ability to create a mobile app quickly by a single developer (saving $20K).
- Increased customer satisfaction.
- Avoids outsourcing costs of $10k-$20k.
Android Studio
- Busy
- Confusing
- Marginal IDE
- Large footprint
- Single device development
- Lean, no IDE needed
- Web browser preview
- Multi-device development
- Scripting of build packages for deployment
Do you think Ionic delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Ionic's feature set?
Yes
Did Ionic live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Ionic go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Ionic again?
Yes