Ionic Box is a ready-to-go hybrid development environment for building mobile apps with Ionic, Cordova, and Android. Ionic Box was built to make it easier for developers to build Android versions of their app, and especially for Windows users to get a complete dev environment set up without all the headaches.
For iOS developers, Ionic Box won't do much for you right now unless you are having trouble installing the Android SDK, and Ionic Box cannot be used for iOS development for a variety of legal reasons (however, the ionic package command in beta will soon fix that).
To install, download and install Vagrant for your platform, then download and install VirtualBox.
$ git clone https://github.com/benjick/ionic-box
$ cd ionic-box
$ vagrant up
The username for vagrant is vagrant and the password is vagrant.
This will download and install the image, and then go through the dependencies and install them one by one. vagrant ssh will connect you to the image and give you a bash prompt. Once everything completes, you'll have a working box to build your apps on Android.
The image also has support for connected USB Android devices. To test whether devices are connected, you can run (from the box):
$ adb-devices
If that does not work, or shows ????? permissions, then run:
$ adb-restart
$ vagrant ssh
$ cd apps
$ ionic start amazeApp sidemenu
$ cd amazeApp
$ ionic platform add android
$ ionic run android
See http://ionicframework.com/getting-started/ for available starter templates
$ cd amazeApp
$ ionic serve
Pick the eth0-connection, no localhost. Point your browser to http://localhost:8100/ and you're set.