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Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic
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Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic

by Gaurav Saini
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
242 pages
5h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Web manifest

When you build an Ionic application, Ionic CLI automatically generates a manifest file inside src folder with the name manifest.json. This file is responsible for how our application will look like on a mobile screen when installed. Ionic automatically sets the path inside your index.html file:

<link rel="manifest" href="manifest.json">

So you don't have to worry about the path, you just have to change the manifest.json file according to your needs and Ionic will take care of the rest. As you can see, we have several options available (name, short_name, and so on) in our manifest file, we will now be discussing the manifest file used in our currency converter application:

// src/manifest.json {  "name": "Currency Converter ...
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