Ionic | Create a simple Calculator

by Ralph Ionic, Ionic 4

Sources for this tutorial are here.

Preparation

Clone the example

git clone https://github.com/ionic4-toolbox/App-Calculator.git

Starting from new

Before starting, make sure that you are using the current ionic version.If you are new to ionic , then look here for an installation guide.

npm -g install ionic@latest

Create App

ionic start Calculator sidemenu --type angular --no-link --no-git
cd Calculator

Add a new page for our calculator

ionic generate page Calculator

Add new page to sidemenu

Add link to page in app.components.ts file

  public appPages = [
    { title: 'Home', url: '/home', icon: 'home' },
    { title: 'List', url: '/list', icon: 'list' },
    { title: 'Calculator', url: '/calculator', icon: 'grid'
    }
  ];

Add calculation logic to typescript file

4public appPages = [
    { title: 'Home', url: '/home', icon: 'home' },
    { title: 'List', url: '/list', icon: 'list' },
    { title: 'Calculator', url: '/calculator', icon: 'grid' }
];

Add html layout

The layout of our page consists of a header row containing the result and 4 rows containing the buttons of our calculator.

Header
Row 1
Row 2
Row 3

Each row for our keys is build with 5 columns.

Header
Row1, Col1Row1, Col2Row1, Col3Row1, Col4Row1, Col5
Row2, Col1Row2, Col2Row2, Col3Row2, Col4Row2, Col5
Row3, Col1Row3, Col2Row3, Col3Row3, Col4Row3, Col5
Row4, Col1Row4, Col2Row4, Col3Row4, Col4Row4, Col5

Add within the table cells, we place our buttons

Header
789×÷
456+–
123x2√x
C0,1/x=

We implement our layout with div’s instead of a html table.

So every row is a

<div class="row">
...
</div>

And within the row we define our buttons also as divs

<div class="number">
   <span (click)="btnClicked('4')">4</span>
   <span (click)="btnClicked('5')">5</span>
   <span (click)="btnClicked('6')">6</span>
</div>
<div class="symbol"><span (click)="btnClicked('+')">+</span></div>
<div class="symbol"><span (click)="btnClicked('-')">-</span></div>

The final html layout looks like this:

<ion-header>
  <ion-toolbar>
    <ion-buttons slot="start">
      <ion-menu-button></ion-menu-button>
    </ion-buttons>
    <ion-title>Rechner</ion-title>
  </ion-toolbar>
</ion-header>
<ion-content>
  <div class="calculator">
    <div class="header">
      <div class="window"></div>
      <div class="input"><span>
          <ion-input type="text" placeholder="0" name="display"
                     [(ngModel)]="result">
          </ion-input>
        </span></div>
    </div>
    <div class="keys">
      <div class="row">
        <div class="number">
          <span (click)="btnClicked('7')">7</span>
          <span (click)="btnClicked('8')">8</span>
          <span (click)="btnClicked('9')">9</span>
        </div>
        <div class="symbol"><span (click)="btnClicked('*')">×</span></div>
        <div class="symbol"><span (click)="btnClicked('/')">÷</span></div>
      </div>
      <div class="row">
        <div class="number">
          <span (click)="btnClicked('4')">4</span>
          <span (click)="btnClicked('5')">5</span>
          <span (click)="btnClicked('6')">6</span>
        </div>
        <div class="symbol"><span (click)="btnClicked('+')">+</span></div>
        <div class="symbol"><span (click)="btnClicked('-')">-</span></div>
      </div>
      <div class="row">
        <div class="number">
          <span (click)="btnClicked('1')">1</span>
          <span (click)="btnClicked('2')">2</span>
          <span (click)="btnClicked('3')">3</span>
        </div>
        <div class="symbol">
          <span (click)="btnClicked('square')">x<sup>2</sup></span>
        </div>
        <div class="symbol">
          <span (click)="btnClicked('squareroot')">√x</span>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="row">
        <div class="number">
          <span class=dull (click)="btnClicked('C')">C</span>
          <span (click)="btnClicked('0')">0</span>
          <span (click)="btnClicked(',')">,</span>
        </div>
        <div class="symbol">
          <span (click)="btnClicked('reciproc')">1/x</span>
        </div>
        <div class="symbol action">
          <span (click)="btnClicked('=')">=</span>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</ion-content>

Add css definitions

html,
body {
    width: 100
    height: 100
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 28px;
}
body {
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    align-items: center;
    background-color: #f5f5f5;
}
.calculator {
    margin: 20px;
    widows: 100px;
    border-radius: 10px;
    box-shadow: 0 25px 60px -10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
    .header {
        background-color: #000;
        height: 120px;
        border-radius: 10px 10px 0 0;
        .window {
            height: 15px;
            display: flex;
            justify-content: flex-start;
            padding: 10px;
            span {
                width: 10px;
                height: 10px;
                border-radius: 50
                margin-right: 5px;
                cursor: pointer;
                &.red {
                    background-color: #ff5252;
                }
                &.yellow {
                    background-color: #f5a623;
                }
                &.green {
                    background-color: #73c21d;
                }
            }
        }
        .input {
            background-color: #ff0300;
            color: #ffffff;
            padding: 10px 30px;
            font-size: 28px;
            span {
                text-align: right;
                color: #ffffff;
            }
        }
    }
    .keys {
        background: linear-gradient(135deg, #3a3a3a, #000000);
        height: 280px;
        border-radius: 0 0 10px 10px;
        font-size: 24px;
        .row {
            height: 70px;
            display: flex;
            flex-direction: row;
            .number {
                width: 75
                display: flex;
                color: #ffffff;
                span {
                    width: calc(100
                    height: 70px;
                    text-align: center;
                    display: flex;
                    justify-content: center;
                    align-items: center;
                    user-select: none;
                    cursor: pointer;
                }
            }
            .symbol {
                width: 25
                background-color: #ffffff;
                font-size: 34px;
                span {
                    width: 100
                    height: 70px;
                    text-align: center;
                    display: flex;
                    justify-content: center;
                    align-items: center;
                    user-select: none;
                    cursor: pointer;
                }
                &.action {
                    background: linear-gradient(60deg, #ff0300, #ffa100);
                    border-radius: 0 0 10px 0;
                    color: #ffffff;
                    box-shadow: 0 25px 60px -10px rgba(255, 10, 0, 0.5);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
.dull {
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #4a4a4a;
}

Add javascript code for page

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
	selector: 'app-calculator1',
	templateUrl: './calculator.page.html',
	styleUrls: ['./calculator.page.scss'],
})
export class CalculatorPage implements OnInit {
	result = "";
	constructor() { }
	ngOnInit() {
	}
	btnClicked(btn) {
		console.log('CalculatorPage::btnClicked = ' + btn);
		if (btn == "C") {
			this.result = "";
		} else if (btn == "=") {
			this.result = eval(this.result);
		} else if (btn == "squareroot") {
			this.result = Math.sqrt(eval(this.result)) + "";
		} else if (btn == "square") {
			this.result = eval("(" + this.result + ") * ( " + this.result + ")");
		} else if (btn == "reciproc") {
			this.result = eval(1 + "/ (" + this.result + ")");
		} else {
			this.result += btn;
		}
	}
}

The final result