Javascript

Spotify is a great way to stream all of your loved music. As nearly all great services have a public API today, so has Spotify. In this tutorial I will show you how to login to Spotify, access your playlists, read the track data and also play some music snippets. Everything will be wrapped inside a mobile app using the great Ionic Framework.

Since the release of the iOS 8 SDK, developers have access to the HealthKit App and its services. Through this service you can read and write body data like weight, height or store a complete sports workout session. To implement this feature in your Ionic app, you can make use of thengCordova wrapper for cordova plugins, and that’s what I will show you today.

We will make a simple App to write some general data and to submit a complete workout to the Health app, which will then be displayed inside the standard iOS app.

The starting point for this tutorial is my last tutorial about a simple login with ionic. If you haven’t followed you can get it on my github repo.

First of all you need to download the loginpattern library created by Sudhanshu Yadav from his github repo. Copy the PatternLock js and css file into your ionic project under www/lib/patternLock.

As the lib needs jQuery, you need to install it. Installing things with bower is the most easy way, so go to your command line from the root of your ionic project and run: