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Resetting checkboxes in an Ionic modal

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I am building my first iOS app or HTML5/iOS app with the Ionic framework. Now my app has a list of items, and each item has a modal dialog attached to it that displays a bunch of properties attached to the item. These properties can be in an on/off state, so they are presented as checkboxes, so the user can modify their state. The state of the properties are independent of the similar properties on other items, so what was the problem I faced? Problem Ok so lets look at the Ionic tabs sample app, that we can get once we run the following command ionic start resetModal tabs So amongst other things, it gives us a tab for chats, that looks something like this Chats Ok so lets say there was this feature that on swiping left, it would revel a modal dialog ( IonicModal ) that contains a list of days (checkboxes) that you can select to set the availability for each chat contact. So when you swipe left on each contact, it should present the modal dialog in it's pristine state i...

How UX changed the way I look at my app

Ok, so this blog post is really more of a story as opposed to all my previous posts, that explain how to solve a particular programming problem. Ok so now let's start my story, so it starts off by me meeting this awesome researcher at a meetup and ends with my discovery of UX . Ok so let me start my story, so here goes... In the beginning So it all started in the 4th quarter of 2014 when I was looking for ways to promote my PTA (Post Traumatic Amnesia) app. So I came across this site called Meetup  where I found the  health tech meetup and I thought it would be a good way to try and promote my PTA app (which I will be releasing as an open-source project soon). At the meetup I met someone, a very interesting girl who was a researcher with her research topic being health, fitness and dieting. So we had a chat about what both of us wanted out of the meetup and how we both perceived the notion of building apps. This girl was Mandy Schippers , who is a "behavioural scientist...