There are cases where you might want to package plugins with your app in your version control; like for example you are using a commercial plugin or maybe a proplugin and need to use cloud building. The simplest setup that I have personally used is in the very root of your application. You create a… Continue reading NativeScript Offline Plugins
NativeScript 6.20 has several fixes, and finally added the long awaited Scoped packages. UPDATE Scoped packages apparently breaks some things. See here for more info on how to deal with it. Scoped packages; are where you can now do const label = require("@nativescript/core/ui/label" rather than the older const label = require("tns-core-modules/ui/label"); This makes things a… Continue reading NativeScript 6.2.0 Released
NativeScript 6.10 has several fixes, and a couple new features to make it worth your time to upgrade. 6.1 has to be one of my favorite recent releases. Being biased here, the best fix is the PR I did; it allows the tns command line to actually be used with our awesome https://proplugins.org site. You… Continue reading NativeScript 6.10 Released
NativeScript 5.40 only offers a smaller number of fixes and features than usual; but is still well worth upgrading to. It will probably be the last major 5.x release. NativeScript 6.00 is on the horizon... The most interesting update (for me) is actually the Android V8 engine has been upgraded yet again. Android engine is… Continue reading NativeScript 5.40 Released
Even more fixes have come down the pike. Based on some of the bugs that have been squashed it appears that if you are using v5.1.0 you want to upgrade to v5.1.1 as it should make your life a little easier. Core ModulesT Technically they released 5.1.1 of the core modules last month; as it… Continue reading NativeScript 5.1.1 Released
If you look at my blog; I do believe this is the first article I've ever written about something political. I tend to be anti-political because I feel like it just divides us and tends to be just complaining with no one actually doing anything meaningful about it. However two days ago I noticed in… Continue reading Australian AABill
Recently a person on twitter asked about a statement that Max made in a blog article which he did on the official ionic blog. For those who know me; I actually am pretty heavily into security; and I happen to have used many mobile technologies Cordova/Phonegap/ionic, Flutter, Titanium, React Native, Java, NativeScript, ObjC, Swift, etc -- so this… Continue reading Security with Apps on iOS and Android.
It has been a long road getting to this point; but I'm happy to see that the NativeScript team released The final piece of the 5.0. The CLI tool which was the final piece was finally released on Nov 2nd; the rest of the pieces have been released for a couple days. 5.0 adds a… Continue reading NativeScript 5.0 Released
I get more than one message a week requesting help with one of my many open source plugins or projects. I would really love to help you; but this is not something that is sustainable and completely unfair to my family. Not only did you get the plugin and/or project for free; you already have… Continue reading Tech support & Open Source bug fixes
Well, my son has been learning Web and NativeScript for a while and was continuing to work on NativeScript project today (Lots of cool things like GridLayouts, ListViews, Sliders). So he finally got to see first hand the wonderful world of fun that the new NativeScript 3.0 upgrade has caused. One of his requirements for… Continue reading NativeScript: 2.5 and 3.0 upgrade learning moments