LinkedIn Nov 2020

Created on Nov 29, 2020

Introduction

LinkedIn is a networking tool to find connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners. Its UI has been updated constantly and I really love how it looks nowadays. I've been using it for years and have my own profile there.

I always take it serious to write high quality, clean and self-explained code. When purchasing this, you also get my latest "helper" snippets inside the package to make it even more fun to code.

Every app seems to add Story feature these days. So did Linkedin. I've updated the UI to the latest in Nov 2020.

What's in the package

Ionic Project source code: based on the folder structure generated with Ionic CLI
No Backend code: this is just the UI, not a fully functional app. Data is mostly static dummy unless mentioned, e.g GIF search uses the real Giphy API

Preview

Download APK to preview the theme:

enter image description here linkedin-nov-2020_demo.apk

Watch on Youtube

See how it works on Youtube: https://youtu.be/rpnJC8xAmCs

Happy prototyping!

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Changelog

Note: All updates are for Ionic 5

Last updated: Nov 29 2020

v1 (May 11 2020)

First version

v2 (Nov 29 2020)

Update to the latest LinkedIn mobile app UI
Add Story UI

Screens

Welcome
Log in
Home (news feed)
Post Detail and Post comment
Network
New Post
Notifications
Jobs
Messaging and conversation
Profile
Search
Job detail
Story
Dark mode (bingo!!!) - When the whole world is going dark

Run locally

1.Install Ionic environment

$ npm install -g @ionic/cli@6.12.0

2.After purchasing, download the zip file containing the entire demo app and unzip

3.Go inside the extracted folder

4.Install all dependencies

$ npm install

5.Start local server

$ ionic serve

6.Your default browser should now automatically open the template

Notes

1.Modify the default theme colors to match LinkedIn's colors in src/sass/variables.override.scss

:root {
  /** primary **/
  --ion-color-primary: #3066bb;
  --ion-color-primary-rgb: 48,102,187;
  --ion-color-primary-contrast: #ffffff;
  --ion-color-primary-contrast-rgb: 255,255,255;
  --ion-color-primary-shade: #2a5aa5;
  --ion-color-primary-tint: #4575c2;
}

  ...

2.I personally like the look of the app on iOS so I forced the theme to iOS mode. You can change that configuration to suit your need

# in src/app/app.module.ts
    IonicModule.forRoot({
      mode: 'ios',
      backButtonText: '',
    }),
    ...

3.I've created 16 pages and 31 components when building this UI. It's easier than ever to reuse these components in your existing Ionic 5 projects. code

Build with capacitor

First of all, make sure that you can Run Locally (see the instruction above).

# build web asset (to folder www)
$ ionic build

# add platform (ios or android)
$ ionic capacitor add ios

# prepare app icons and splash images
$ npm run resources

# copy web assets into the native project
$ ionic capacitor copy ios

# open Xcode, then build the native app from there
$ ionic capacitor open ios

# OR run in live-reload mode
$ ionic capacitor run ios -l --external

See more:

Ionic - iOS Development

Ionic - Android Development

Migrating a Web App Using Cordova to Capacitor