How To Download A File Using File Transfer Plugin In Ionic 3

Ionic is an open-source framework and the most popular cross-platform mobile app framework. It is helpful for developing or building hybrid mobile apps quickly and easily. It will save a lot of time and money for investment.

This article demonstrates how to download a file in ionic 3 using a native file transfer plugin integrated with the SharePoint Framework. The following tools and requirements should be ready before starting this article.

Once you've installed Node.js we can install other tools on the terminal or command line. Run the following commands step by step.

Installation is finished, so let’s start creating an Ionic 3 app.

Open your node.js terminal and open a specific location to create the Ionic 3 app.

Start a new Ionic project using ionic start command,

This command will take a few minutes because it installs all dependencies and modules for a project.

Now, change the location to the myApp.

Once you've changed the location to myApp, Add the android platform to our app.

Now run a project using the following command.

Make sure you have to connected devices and settings have been set.

Now let’s start.

The File Transfer plugin allows you to upload a file and download a file.

Using the File Plugin we can achieve the following:

Get available free space, check if a directory is available or not, create a directory, remove a directory, move a directory one place to another place, copy a directory, list an available directory, set a pre-defined path, check if a file is available or not, create a file, remove a file, write a file, read a file as text, read a file and return base64 data, read a file and return data as a binary format, read a file and return data as array buffer format, move a file, copy a file, get a directory, get a file, and more.

Install and configure File Transfer and File

Follow the below-mentioned steps.

Now we have our Ionic app so we can move forward. First, install a File Transfer plugin to our ionic app using the following steps.

Now install the file plugin to our ionic app using the following steps.

Now file transfer plugin is already installed so we need to add File Transfer plugin to our app module file.

app.module.ts file