1.1 Introduction

Ionic is a framework that allows developers to build mobile apps using existing skills. When building these apps, we use plugins to access the hardware of the device we are building our app for. Since Ionic allows us to build apps for the browser, this hardware can be a webcam connected to a computer. In this Coffee Break Course we will learn to use a couple of the plugins to access the microphone of our device. The first plugin will launch the default recording application of the device. This option works, but it exits from the application to handle the recording. The second option uses another plugin that works within your app and captures audio directly from the microphone. We won't record this audio, but it is a simple thing to add this functionality later. At the end of watching this course, you should have a better understanding of how to use the microphone with Ionic.