Ionic 5 File download/open example app

Table of contents

• General Info
• Technologies
• Launch

General Info

This is a simple application made with Ionic 5 to provide an example on how to create/download and open files from the web and on an Android device, for now, this app shows how to do these task on PDF and Excel files.

Technologies

a) Ionic 5

b) Capacitor: For using the Filesystem plugin to create the files and directories on the mobile device (Android).

c) XLSX (v. 0.15.6): To create Excel files, link to their repo:

https://github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs

d) pdfmake-wrapper (v. 2.0.0): To create PDF files, it is build up on PDF Maker, link to their repo:

https://github.com/Lugriz/pdfmake-wrapper

Launch

To run this project after downloading it on your machine, you need to install the dependencies of the project, run on your terminal at the root of the project: npm i

Then, to run the project on the web, run: ionic serve

To be able to run this app on a mobile device, make sure to run: ionic build

If you want to run it on an Android device, run: ionic cap run android -l --host:0.0.0.0