So, if you don't already have an Ionic application set up on your computer, and you would like to follow along with this example, you should make sure to complete Step 3 and Step 4 of the previous tutorial. Since we already have covered the setup steps for the example application in the last tutorial, I won't be covering it again here. When using Capacitor, we can use the exact same codebase to deploy to both iOS and Android. Facilitating communication between the web application and the Native APIs of the device the application is running on.Īll you need to build your application with Capacitor is some web-based code to point it at, and so that doesn't need to be an Ionic application (Ionic is certainly a great choice for developing a mobile app, though).Wrapping a web-based application in a native shell.I will be using an Ionic application as an example for this, but keep in mind that you don't need to use Ionic in order to use Capacitor. For this tutorial, I created a separate profile on a new computer so that absolutely nothing was installed or configured beforehand. In this tutorial, we are going to be doing the exact same thing, except we will be deploying an Android application built with Capacitor to Google Play.Īs was the case for the last tutorial, we are going to do this starting from a completely blank slate to demonstrate how to set up the appropriate environment from scratch. host=0.0.0.Earlier this week, I released a guide to deploying Capacitor applications to iOS. -external: Host dev server on all network interfaces (i.e.-open: Open native IDE instead of using capacitor run.-target=: Deploy to a specific device by its ID (use -list to see all).You can list targets with -list.įor Android and iOS, you can setup Remote Debugging on your device with browser development tools using these docs. If you have multiple devices and emulators, you can target a specific one by ID with the -target option. In some scenarios, you may need to host the dev server on an external address using the -external option. When using -livereload with hardware devices, remember that livereload needs an active connection between device and computer. Run capacitor run (or open IDE for your native project with the -open option).Perform ionic build (or run the dev server from ionic serve with the -livereload option).

Ionic capacitor run will do the following:

Download capacitor