IonicMapStarter, the Ionic successor to MobileMapStarter

At winter solstice 2012, I took a few days of vacation time and used it to create MobileMapStarter. The intent was to boil down the essential and generally-reusable bits of a mobile mapping app, strip out the application-specific stuff, and have a starting place for our future map apps. This meant:

• A working mobile framework, with page-view management and all
• Working around certain bugs and issues of Leaflet when used inside page-view systems
• Working boilerplate code for geocoding, location tracking, etc.
• The thing being designed with configuration separate from execution so it's simple to reconfigure
• Ability to cache tiles for offline use

And it worked out famously. I presented MobileMapStarter at FOSS4G 2014 (welcome to Portland!) and was surprised at how popular it became.

But, jQuery Mobile has problems and I have been looking for a newer framework to replace it. Some weeks back I really got to like Ionic, and winter solstice 2015 has brought you...

IonicMapStarter

https://github.com/Greeninfo-Network/IonicMapStarter

It's the same concept as before: a mobile app scaffold, that's easy to reconfigure and adapt to form your own mobile app. But this time it's built with Ionic. I mentioned a few weeks back some improvements which this change brought to ParkInfo Mobile:

• Better performance all around, from the map to general page-loading and panning behavior
• Cleaner structure from the ground up, and a reduction in code volume
• Improved UI for the offline tile caching, as well as improved capabilities

We still aren't releasing ParkInfo Mobile until we finish some branding
 and functional tweaks, but you can start on your next-generation mobile app tonight.