Simulate and Build with Platform-Specified SDK

If you need to use platform-specified features like camera, network and Bluetooth from your Ionic app, you need to build with specified platform SDK. Besides, you can also simulate with specified platform SDK by:

1. cd C:\workspace_ionic\myApp1\
2. running the below commands
   1. for Android => “ionic platform add android”
   2. for IOS => “ionic platform add ios”
   3. for Windows Phone => “ionic platform add wp8”

Please note that you need to have OS X operating system for IOS build.

Before building with specified platforms, specified SDK may need to be installed:

1. Android

http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/5.0.0/guide/platforms/android/index.html

2. IOS

http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/5.0.0/guide/platforms/ios/index.html

3. Windows Phone

http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/5.0.0/guide/platforms/wp8/index.html

You can find other platforms from http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/5.0.0/guide/platforms/

After adding specified platforms to your app, you can build with specified platform by:

1. cd C:\workspace_ionic\myApp1\
2. running the below commands
   1. for Android => “ionic build android”
   2. for IOS => “ionic build ios”
   3. for Windows Phone => “ionic build wp8”
3. then, you can find your platform-specified source codes under:
   1. for Android => C:\workspace_ionic\myApp1\platforms\android\
   2. for IOS => C:\workspace_ionic\myApp1\platforms\ios\
   3. for Windows Phone => C:\workspace_ionic\myApp1\platforms\wp8\

Finally, you can simulate your app by running the below commands:

1. for Android => “ionic emulate android”
2. for IOS => “ionic emulate ios”
3. for Windows Phone => “ionic emulate wp8”