Developers working on hybrid applications have been using ngCordova with Ionic 1 for some time. Now with Ionic 3, which is built with ES6 and TypeScript, we need to have a wrapper library for ES6 or TypeScript, which is exactly what Ionic Native is. It's a collection of ES5/ES6/TypeScript wrappers built on top of Cordova APIs, which makes it convenient to integrate into Ionic applications. The Ionic team started this project as a feature request from a community member. It started as an experiment and it gained a lot of support due to the fact that integrated plugins were always a pain when it comes to lack of documentation and confusing APIs. These Angularjs wrappers simplified the process of integration and fit with the Angular syntax also. Now there are around 120+ Cordova plugins supported in Ionic Native and still counting.
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