Now that we’ve released Ionic 1.0 RC1, we want to share more about our favorite new Ionic features.

This week, we’ll focus on animated SVG spinners.

SVG icons operate more smoothly than the animated font icons we were using. They can be encapsulated inside a directive, so you don’t have to deal with the SVG markup. You can switch them out at run time for platform continuity, and iOS and Android will each get the correct icons.

Check out the documentation for the spinners, read about them on our blog, and try them out in your own app! For Ionic 1.0 RC0 and above.

In other Ionic news…

• Now you can Invite a Friend (or colleague) to view and test your Ionic app. 
   
• Ionic now uses interactive transitions, rather than static animations. Read about the new Swipe to Go Back feature. 
   
• Ionic will always be best friends with Angular. Read about how Ionic and Angular 2 will work together on our blog.
   
• Learn how we iterated on Collection Repeat to make it more performant.
   
• The Ionic Creator Beta is open for testing. We look forward to your feedback and bug reports!

That’s all for now. As always, let us know what you think about our new features! Stay tuned for more updates in the coming weeks…

– Katie and the Ionic team