This is more of an informational post; there are a couple issues that I am aware of that will kill your application deader than a door nail. As a community service I want to inform you on how to deal with them. The first issue is fairly simple to duplicate; open your app in Android… Continue reading NativeScript: Android & Crashing issues
Some of you might have seen the all New version 2.5.0 has been released today. For the first time that I can recall; Telerik has actually beat me to the release news. You can read the official blog post here. Some of the new features Better Debugging using Chrome Developer tools Working Webpack 2.0 Flexbox… Continue reading NativeScript 2.5.0 - Released
Amazon sales some decent little tablets called the Amazon Fire 7", add one of there decent kids cases and the tablet is great for letting the kids use for a ereader, comics, games, notes, Zork, and many other tasks that a normal Android compatible touch screen devices can do. All for the grand total of… Continue reading Amazon Tablets - Jailbreaking / Rooting
Well, we just finished the Conference yesterday! Thanks for everyone coming out; I enjoyed meeting a ton of you. And I hope everyone had a great conference. For NativeScript being released as a Beta to the world 18 months ago; they had a large turn out. In fact the Angular Native sessions… Continue reading NativeScript Developer Days
I'm happy to announce my latest commercial plugin; this one is a bit different then most of my plugins. I ran into a situation while benchmarking one of my apps where the parsing of the Declarative UI XML files and the building out of a fairly complex layout cost me a couple seconds of time… Continue reading NativeScript - DynamicLoader
The NativeScript team released a feature under the cover of dark; not even listed in the change log; but Panayot; did a refactoring of the CSS selector system in NativeScript. With his changes he has not only sped up the selector code in most cases but he added some additional features like [myAttrib="yes"] > .figure… Continue reading NativeScript: CSS Selectors & Pseudo Selectors in 2.2.0
For those living in a dungeon hacking out code; guess what was released by those fine wizards at Telerik today! Yes, you got it - v2.2.0 of NativeScript is now available! Upgrade Instructions below. As usual; if you run into any issues I will be putting any common issues at the bottom of this post… Continue reading NativeScript: Version 2.2.0 released
If you create plugins, I've created a awesome shell that will basically build out your entire plugin folder structure after asking you a couple questions. This is standalone, you don't need anything beyond what you should already have (npm/node). It has ability to create plugins in a variety of ways... It will automatically create (and… Continue reading Introducing tns-template-plugin
This is just a heads up so that others don't waste the time I wasted; trying to figure it out... So, I've been working all day on a really cool NS app for a client; made LOTS of graphical changes; Gradients, shadows, borders, opacity, custom built fonts, themes, tap effects, etc -- looks and acts… Continue reading NativeScript: Declarative UI not updating?
For those who may have seen some post of mine on Slack about TypeScript being not a performant as JavaScript; I have finally done the real benchmarks and spent the time totally de-typescriptifing the NativeScript 2.00 runtimes. And here is my startling results.... Oh, wait; that is not right -- I was the one wrong. … Continue reading NativeScript: TypeScript Speed/Memory usage