I need to implement both a sidemenu and tabs on the same screen in my Ionic app project.
It is working (almost). I want my bottom tabs to be visible always, but I also want to be able to navigate to other (then tab) view from the sidemenu.
It should keep all tabs menu visible but with all items inactive.
My states definition:
.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider, $ionicConfigProvider) {
$stateProvider
.state('app', {
url: '/app',
abstract: true,
templateUrl: 'templates/base.html'
})
.state('app.locations', { // this view doesn't work, when I navigate to it, it changes view title only.
url: '/locations',
views: {
'menuContent': {
templateUrl: 'templates/views/locations.html',
controller: 'LocationsCtrl'
}
}
})
.state('app.home', {
url: '/home',
views: {
'tab-home': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tabs/home.html',
controller: 'HomeCtrl'
}
}
})
.state('app.history', {
url: '/history',
views: {
'tab-history': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tabs/history.html',
controller: 'HistoryCtrl'
}
}
})
.state('app.messages', {
url: '/messages',
views: {
'tab-messages': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tabs/messages.html',
controller: 'MessagesCtrl'
}
}
});
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/app/home');
});
My base.html template:
<ion-side-menus enable-menu-with-back-views="false">
<ion-side-menu-content>
<ion-nav-bar class="bar-stable">
<ion-nav-back-button>
</ion-nav-back-button>
<ion-nav-buttons side="left">
<button class="button button-icon button-clear ion-navicon" menu-toggle="left">
</button>
</ion-nav-buttons>
</ion-nav-bar>
<ion-nav-view name="menuContent"></ion-nav-view> <!-- IS IT OK?? -->
<ion-tabs class="tabs-icon-top tabs-color-active-positive">
<ion-tab title="Home" icon-off="ion-ios-home" icon-on="ion-ios-home" ui-sref="app.home">
<ion-nav-view name="tab-home"></ion-nav-view>
</ion-tab>
<ion-tab title="History" icon-off="ion-ios-clock-outline" icon-on="ion-ios-clock-outline" ui-sref="app.history">
<ion-nav-view name="tab-history"></ion-nav-view>
</ion-tab>
<ion-tab title="Messages" icon-off="ion-ios-email-outline" icon-on="ion-ios-email-outline" ui-sref="app.messages" badge="2" badge-style="badge-assertive">
<ion-nav-view name="tab-messages"></ion-nav-view>
</ion-tab>
</ion-tabs>
</ion-side-menu-content>
<ion-side-menu side="left">
<ion-header-bar class="bar-stable">
<h1 class="title">Left</h1>
</ion-header-bar>
<ion-content>
<ion-list>
<ion-item class="item item-divider">Location: B17726</ion-item>
<ion-item menu-close href="#/app/locations">
Login
</ion-item>
<ion-item menu-close>
Search
</ion-item>
<ion-item menu-close>
Browse
</ion-item>
<ion-item menu-close>
Playlists
</ion-item>
<ion-item class="item item-divider">
General
</ion-item>
</ion-list>
</ion-content>
</ion-side-menu>
</ion-side-menus>
Basically, I want to have bottom tabs always visible, event no of its items is active. When one of tabs is clicked, I want to show it as normal.
Would comment if I could (no rep woes) but here's the track I'm currently looking down if this helps you at all or gives you a flash of inspiration. I'm trying to figure this out as well.
Here's a similar question on the Ionic Forums: http://forum.ionicframework.com/t/show-tab-bar-on-pages-not-children-of-the-tab-bar/726
The last comment mentions an Angular method called $ionicTabsDelegate with a method called showBar(show) which takes a boolean on whether or not to show the tabs bar.
Ref: http://ionicframework.com/docs/api/service/%24ionicTabsDelegate/
Here's the code I've currently produced, though it doesn't seem to work (hopefully it's close)?
index.html
<ion-content class="side-menu-left" ng-controller="AppCtrl">
<ion-list <!--Irrelevant Stuff Here-->>
<ion-item ui-sref="aboutUs" <!--Irrelevant Stuff Here--> ng-click="showTabs()" menu-close>
<i class="icon ion-information-circled"></i>About Us</ion-item>
<!-- More Menu Items Here etc. -->
controllers.js
.controller('AppCtrl', function($scope, $ionicTabsDelegate) {
$scope.showTabs = function() {
$ionicTabsDelegate.showBar(true);
};
});
Edit: Here is another Ionic forum post on this subject along with what seems to be a working Codepen example.
forum.ionicframework.com/t/using-sidemenu-and-tabs-together/2311
codepen.io/gnomeontherun/pen/tbvdH
I wanted to add a Login-Screen to my Ionic-App. But somehow the App just goes white when the urlRouterProvider points to the specified path. At the moment it looks like this:
login.html (template)
<ion-view view-title="login">
<ion-content class="padding">
<label class="item item-input">
<span class="input-label">Username</span>
<input type="text">
</label>
<label class="item item-input">
<span class="input-label">Password</span>
<input type="password">
</label>
</ion-content>
</ion-view>
Fairly simple, just to input fields.
the app.js containts this:
.state('tab.dash', {
url: '/dash',
views: {
'tab-dash': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-dash.html',
controller: 'DashCtrl'
}
}
})
.state('dash.login', {
url: '/login',
views: {
'login': {
templateUrl: 'templates/login.html',
controller: 'LoginCtrl'
}
}
})
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/tab/dash/login');
Yes, the dash view should be parent of the login.
Controller exists, but has no functionality at this moment:
.controller('LoginCtrl', function($scope) {})
I am very new, but according to the most online documentations this should already work! I added a new view, created the state according to it, then pointed the urlRouterProvider to it, which works since the start screen of the app is plain white at the moment with the navbar at the top, added the empty controller and that's it.
There is no service yet and I didn't change the index.html. The App is a Tab-based template of Ionic, with the tabs.html looking like this:
<ion-tabs class="tabs-icon-top tabs-color-active-positive">
<!-- Dashboard Tab -->
<ion-tab title="Home" icon-off="ion-home" icon-on="ion-home" href="#/tab/dash">
<ion-nav-view name="tab-dash"></ion-nav-view>
</ion-tab>
<!-- Kalender Tab -->
<ion-tab title="Kalender" icon-off="ion-calendar" icon-on="ion-calendar" href="#/tab/chats">
<ion-nav-view name="tab-chats"></ion-nav-view>
</ion-tab>
<!-- Fangbuch Tab -->
<ion-tab title="Fangbuch" icon-off="ion-folder" icon-on="ion-folder" href="#/tab/account">
<ion-nav-view name="tab-account"></ion-nav-view>
</ion-tab>
</ion-tabs>
What am I missing here?
You would need to add a view that corresponds with your login screen. In your index.html, do you see where it says <ion-nav-view name="tab-dash"></ion-nav-view>? Notice the name of that view corresponds with the view's name in your ui-router state:
.state('tab.dash', {
url: '/dash',
views: {
'tab-dash': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-dash.html',
controller: 'DashCtrl'
}
}
})
With that being said, here's a pen I found that should help you in the right direction - https://codepen.io/ionic/pen/CbBsA
I am trying to use Angular, Meteorjs and Ionic Framework. It went easy thanks to urigo:angular and urigo:ionic packages. Unfortunately I cannot figure out how to configure ionic links and angular routing to get it working. I have tried different combination of html5Mode on/off, base href, anchors, etc, nothing works. Every suggestion how to fix it is welcome?
app.js
angular.module('namo', ['angular-meteor', 'ui.router', 'ionic']);
function onReady() {
angular.bootstrap(document, ['namo']);
}
if (Meteor.isCordova) {
angular.element(document).on("deviceready", onReady);
}
else {
angular.element(document).ready(onReady);
}
router
angular.module("namo").config(['$urlRouterProvider', '$stateProvider', '$locationProvider', '$ionicConfigProvider',
function ($urlRouterProvider, $stateProvider, $locationProvider, $ionicConfigProvider) {
$ionicConfigProvider.views.maxCache(0)
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
$stateProvider
.state('home', {
url: '/',
views: {
'content' :{
templateUrl: "client/home/views/home.ng.html",
controller: 'HomeCtrl'
}
}
})
.state('user.profile', {
url: '/profile',
views: {
'content' :{
templateUrl: 'client/user/views/profile.ng.html',
controller: 'ProfileCtrl'
}
}
});
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise("/");
}]);
and main layout
<head>
<base href="/">
</head>
<body>
<ion-nav-view></ion-nav-view>
<ion-side-menus enable-menu-with-back-views="false">
<ion-side-menu side="left">
<ion-header-bar class="bar-assertive">
<h1 class="title">Menu</h1>
</ion-header-bar>
<ion-content>
<ul class="list">
<a href="/" class="item" menu-close>Home</a>
<a href="/profile" class="item" menu-close>Profile</a>
</ul>
</ion-content>
</ion-side-menu>
<ion-side-menu-content>
<ion-nav-bar class="bar-positive">
<ion-nav-buttons side="left">
<button class="button button-icon button-clear ion-navicon" menu-toggle="left"></button>
</ion-nav-buttons>
</ion-nav-bar>
<ion-nav-view name="content" animation="slide-left-right"></ion-nav-view>
</ion-side-menu-content>
</ion-side-menus>
</body>
Controllers (home and profile) contains simple "hello home" and "hello profile". Unfortunately only one message is displayed and switching between links does not trigger more messages.
in the router states try to change your views names from content to
home and profile and use the ui-sref instead of href ui-sref="profile"
CODE
http://codepen.io/hawkphil/pen/LEBNVB
I have two pages (link1 and link2) from the side menu. Each page has 2 tabs:
link1: tab 1.1 and tab 1.2
link2: tab 2.1 and tab 2.2
I am using ion-tabs for each page to contain the 2 tabs.
This is a very simple design: I want to click on the link1 or link2 to go to appropriate route. But for some reason, the state has changed correctly (see Console) but the actual html template did not get updated. Can you find out what's wrong and how to fix?
There seems to be some caching problem or something.
HTML
<title>Tabs Example</title>
<link href="//code.ionicframework.com/nightly/css/ionic.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="//code.ionicframework.com/nightly/js/ionic.bundle.js"></script>
<ion-side-menus enable-menu-with-back-views="false">
<ion-side-menu-content>
<ion-nav-bar class="bar-positive">
<ion-nav-back-button>
</ion-nav-back-button>
<ion-nav-buttons side="left">
<button class="button button-icon button-clear ion-navicon" menu-toggle="left">
</button>
</ion-nav-buttons>
<ion-nav-buttons side="right">
<button class="button button-icon button-clear ion-navicon" menu-toggle="right">
</button>
</ion-nav-buttons>
</ion-nav-bar>
<ion-nav-view name="menuContent"></ion-nav-view>
</ion-side-menu-content>
<ion-side-menu side="left">
<ion-header-bar class="bar-balanced">
<h1 class="title">Left</h1>
</ion-header-bar>
<ion-content>
<ion-list>
<ion-item nav-clear menu-close ui-sref="link1">
Link 1
</ion-item>
<ion-item nav-clear menu-close ui-sref="link2">
Link 2
</ion-item>
</ion-list>
</ion-content>
</ion-side-menu>
<ion-side-menu side="right">
<ion-header-bar class="bar-calm">
<h1 class="title">Right Menu</h1>
</ion-header-bar>
<ion-content>
<div class="list list-inset">
<label class="item item-input">
<i class="icon ion-search placeholder-icon"></i>
<input type="text" placeholder="Search">
</label>
</div>
<div class="list">
<a class="item item-avatar" href="#">
<img src="img/avatar1.jpg">
<h2>Venkman</h2>
<p>Back off, man. I'm a scientist.</p>
</a>
</div>
</ion-content>
</ion-side-menu>
</ion-side-menus>
</ion-side-menus>
<script id="link1.html" type="text/ng-template">
<ion-tabs class="tabs-icon-top tabs-positive">
<ion-tab title="Home" icon="ion-home">
<ion-view view-title="Home">
<ion-content has-header="true" has-tabs="true" padding="true">
<p>Test</p>
<p>Test Tab 1.1</p>
</ion-content>
</ion-view>
</ion-tab>
<ion-tab title="About" icon="ion-ios-information">
<ion-view view-title="Home">
<ion-content has-header="true" has-tabs="true" padding="true">
<p>Test</p>
<p>Test Tab 1.2</p>
</ion-content>
</ion-view>
</ion-tab>
</ion-tabs>
</script>
<script id="link2.html" type="text/ng-template">
<ion-tabs class="tabs-icon-top tabs-positive">
<ion-tab title="Home" icon="ion-home">
<ion-view view-title="Home">
<ion-content has-header="true" has-tabs="true" padding="true">
<p>Test</p>
<p>Test Tab 2.1</p>
</ion-content>
</ion-view>
</ion-tab>
<ion-tab title="About" icon="ion-ios-information">
<ion-view view-title="Home">
<ion-content has-header="true" has-tabs="true" padding="true">
<p>Test</p>
<p>Test Tab 2.2</p>
</ion-content>
</ion-view>
</ion-tab>
</ion-tabs>
</script>
JS
angular.module('ionicApp', ['ionic'])
.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
$stateProvider
.state('link1', {
url: "/link1",
views: {
'menuContent': {
templateUrl: "link1.html"
}
}
})
.state('link2', {
url: "/link2",
views: {
'menuContent': {
templateUrl: "link2.html"
}
}
});
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise("/link1");
})
.controller('AppCtrl', ['$scope', '$rootScope', '$state', '$stateParams', function($scope, $rootScope, $state, $stateParams) {
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function(evt, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams) {
console.log(toState);
});
}])
You are currently referring to the latest release which is 1.0.0-rc.0 which has bug while transition from one state to another it is not loading the view.
Further research found that, they had 14 beta releases from version 1.0.0-beta.1 to 1.0.0-beta.14 after they are now on version 1.0.0-rc.0 which is release candidate.
nav-view is working perfect till 1.0.0-beta.13 version but it stop working after 1.0.0-beta.14(which is last beta release),
I would suggest you to degrade your version to 1.0.0-beta.13, I know depending on beta version is not good thing but still until ionic release stable version you have to rely on it.
Working Codepen with 1.0.0-beta.13
Update:
Your problem is your view are getting cached because by default caching is enabled inside your ionic app.
Straight from Ionic Doc (Latest Release doc 1.0.0-beta.14)
By default, views are cached to improve performance. When a view is
navigated away from, its element is left in the DOM, and its scope is
disconnected from the $watch cycle. When navigating to a view that is
already cached, its scope is then reconnected, and the existing
element that was left in the DOM becomes the active view. This also
allows for the scroll position of previous views to be maintained.Maximum capacity of caching view is 10.
So by mentioning cache: false on $stateProvider states function or disabling cache of nav-view globally by doing $ionicConfigProvider.views.maxCache(0); inside angular config phase.
So in your case this is what exact problem, your 1st view is getting cache & showing it again & again
There are 3 ways to solve this issue
1. Disable cache globally
Disable all caching by setting it to 0, before using it add $ionicConfigProvider dependency.
$ionicConfigProvider.views.maxCache(0);
Codepen
2. Disable cache within state provider
$stateProvider
.state('link1', {
url: "/link1",
cache: false,
views: {
'menuContent': {
templateUrl: "link1.html"
}
}
})
.state('link2', {
url: "/link2",
cache: false,
views: {
'menuContent': {
templateUrl: "link2.html"
}
}
});
Codepen
3. Disable cache with an attribute
<ion-tab title="Home" icon="ion-home">
<ion-view cache-view="false" view-title="Home">
<!-- Ion content here -->
</ion-view>
</ion-tab>
<ion-tab title="About" icon="ion-ios-information">
<ion-view cache-view="false" view-title="Home">
<!-- Ion content here -->
</ion-view>
</ion-tab>
Codepen
I believe the updated approach would be great to implement. Thanks.
Github issue for the same issue link here
I'm having problems using $ionicHistory on pages where ion-tabs are used. I use this to navigate to the previous view (using goBack()). When I put tabs in a view, the history is wrong, back view is two views before.
To demonstrate this I have create a demo app (plunker here) that has 4 pages/views. Page 1 -> Page 2 -> Page 3 -> Page 4. The last page has tabs on it.
angular
.module("demoapp", ['ionic'])
.config(['$stateProvider', '$urlRouterProvider',
function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider){
$stateProvider
.state('first', {
url: '/',
controller: 'firstController',
templateUrl: 'first.html',
})
.state('second', {
url: '/second',
controller: 'secondController',
templateUrl: 'second.html',
})
.state('third', {
url: '/third',
controller: 'thirdController',
templateUrl: 'third.html',
})
.state('fourth', {
url: '/fourth',
controller: 'fourthController',
templateUrl: 'fourth.html',
});
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise("/");
}])
.factory("historyFactory", ['$ionicHistory', function($ionicHistory){
var show = function() {
var text = "";
var vh = $ionicHistory.viewHistory();
if(vh !== null) {
text += "VIEWS=" + JSON.stringify(vh.views);
text += "BACK=" + JSON.stringify(vh.backView);
}
return text;
}
return {
show : show,
}
}])
.controller("firstController", [
'$scope',
'$location',
function($scope, $location){
$scope.next = function() {
$location.path("/second");
};
}])
.controller("secondController", [
'$scope',
'$location',
'$ionicHistory',
'historyFactory',
function($scope, $location, $ionicHistory, historyFactory){
$scope.next = function() {
$location.path("/third");
};
$scope.prev = function() {
$ionicHistory.goBack();
};
var init = function() {
$scope.data = historyFactory.show();
};
init();
}])
.controller("thirdController", [
'$scope',
'$location',
'$ionicHistory',
'historyFactory',
function($scope, $location, $ionicHistory, historyFactory){
$scope.next = function() {
$location.path("/fourth");
};
$scope.prev = function() {
$ionicHistory.goBack();
};
var init = function() {
$scope.data = historyFactory.show();
};
init();
}])
.controller("fourthController", [
'$scope',
'$ionicHistory',
'historyFactory',
function($scope, $ionicHistory, historyFactory){
$scope.prev = function() {
$ionicHistory.goBack();
};
var init = function() {
$scope.data = historyFactory.show();
};
init();
}]);
This is how the view with tabs looks like:
<ion-view>
<ion-tabs class="tabs-balanced">
<ion-tab title="Tab One">
<ion-header-bar class="bar-balanced">
<div class="buttons">
<button class="button button-icon ion-ios-arrow-back" ng-click="prev()"></button>
</div>
<h1 class="title">Page 4 - Tab 1</h1>
</ion-header-bar>
<ion-content class="has-header">
<h3>History</h3>
<p>{{data}}</p>
</ion-content>
</ion-tab>
</ion-tabs>
</ion-view>
On the second page, the view history looks like this:
VIEWS=
{"002":{"viewId":"002","index":0,"historyId":"root","backViewId":null,"forwardViewId":"003","stateId":"first","stateName":"first","url":"/"},
"003":{"viewId":"003","index":1,"historyId":"root","backViewId":"002","forwardViewId":null,"stateId":"second","stateName":"second","url":"/second"}}
BACK=
{"viewId":"002","index":0,"historyId":"root","backViewId":null,"forwardViewId":"003","stateId":"first","stateName":"first","url":"/"}
On the third page, one more view is added:
VIEWS=
{"002":{"viewId":"002","index":0,"historyId":"root","backViewId":null,"forwardViewId":"003","stateId":"first","stateName":"first","url":"/"},
"003":{"viewId":"003","index":1,"historyId":"root","backViewId":"002","forwardViewId":"004","stateId":"second","stateName":"second","url":"/second"},
"004":{"viewId":"004","index":2,"historyId":"root","backViewId":"003","forwardViewId":null,"stateId":"third","stateName":"third","url":"/third"}}
BACK=
{"viewId":"003","index":1,"historyId":"root","backViewId":"002","forwardViewId":"004","stateId":"second","stateName":"second","url":"/second"}
But on the fourth page, with the ion-tabs the view history remains the same.
VIEWS=
{"002":{"viewId":"002","index":0,"historyId":"root","backViewId":null,"forwardViewId":"003","stateId":"first","stateName":"first","url":"/"},
"003":{"viewId":"003","index":1,"historyId":"root","backViewId":"002","forwardViewId":"004","stateId":"second","stateName":"second","url":"/second"},
"004":{"viewId":"004","index":2,"historyId":"root","backViewId":"003","forwardViewId":null,"stateId":"third","stateName":"third","url":"/third"}}
BACK=
{"viewId":"003","index":1,"historyId":"root","backViewId":"002","forwardViewId":"004","stateId":"second","stateName":"second","url":"/second"}
Is this a bug with $ionicHistory when using ion-tabs or am I doing something wrong in the tabs view?
Try to wrap ion-tabs to avoid this problem
<ion-view>
<div>
<ion-tabs class="tabs-balanced">
<ion-tab title="Tab One">
<ion-header-bar class="bar-balanced">
<div class="buttons">
<button class="button button-icon ion-ios-arrow-back" ng-click="prev()"></button>
</div>
<h1 class="title">Page 4 - Tab 1</h1>
</ion-header-bar>
<ion-content class="has-header">
<h3>History</h3>
<p>{{data}}</p>
</ion-content>
</ion-tab>
<ion-tab title="Tab Two">
<ion-header-bar class="bar-balanced">
<div class="buttons">
<button class="button button-icon ion-ios-arrow-back" ng-click="prev()"></button>
</div>
<h1 class="title">Page 4 - Tab 2</h1>
</ion-header-bar>
<ion-content class="has-header">
<p>Content of tab 2.</p>
</ion-content>
</ion-tab>
</ion-tabs>
</div>
</ion-view>
http://plnkr.co/edit/pVDu9e7QZHzMt3A154i7?p=preview
The ion-tabs introduce parallel stacks to maintain history of each tab and so the $ionicHistory.goBack changes the history state in the current stack. You can solve your issue by removing the tab or adding tabs to all views. There is an excellent explanation for this in this SO post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31385026/3878940
What worked for me was adding an empty ion-view above ion-tabs at the very top of the page.
I guess this 'tricked' the $ionicHistory into believing that my page was rendering a regular view rather than a tabbed view.