Category: Tips

NativeScript AndroidX support and Plugins

The next major version of NativeScript (version 6) will be switching from the android.support packages to the new androidx namespace. This will be a hard break; as you can only use the support api's or androidx api's; but not both. This is something Google has been implementing for a while; and NativeScript is getting on… Continue reading NativeScript AndroidX support and Plugins

VMWare Network Hickups ( sent link down event. )

I ran into this because I went to a hotel that had DHCP renew every 300 seconds, trying to download something inside the VM was getting clobbered... If you check your syslog or kern.log and see the following entries; then I might have the solution for you: kernel: [235397.022939] userif-3: sent link down event. kernel:… Continue reading VMWare Network Hickups ( sent link down event. )

NativeScript application wide runtime settings (updated 5.2)

On thing most people are probably not aware of is that the Android runtimes has a large number of knobs and switches to customize certain behavior of the engine.   I will try and list out all the current switches and knobs that you can use.   iOS now has one switch. First of all the settings… Continue reading NativeScript application wide runtime settings (updated 5.2)

NativeScript iOS Delegates and easy access to modifications.

UPDATE: After a lot of direct testing; this technique does NOT work for fixing and/or updating iOS delegates.   NativeScript does NOT follow the JavaScript specs in this area.  (in other words NativeScript is broken/buggy here, but I do not expect to see a fix for it.)  So even though the JS engine updates the… Continue reading NativeScript iOS Delegates and easy access to modifications.

NativeScript and Console logging on iOS (including XCode 9)

Been a while since I posted; and most this info was going to be presented at the NativeScript Developer days speech that we ran out of time in our cool session.     So I'm going to present it here, because I think this will help a lot of people. First of all, NativeScript has an issue… Continue reading NativeScript and Console logging on iOS (including XCode 9)

NativeScript: @Next- should I use it?

Short version: Nope...   😉 Long Version: I see this pop up frequently in the bug tracker and slack where someone is complaining about a issue; then we all find out it is a issue in the @next version.    Unfortunately Telerik really did everyone a huge disservice when they named it @next. This is not actually… Continue reading NativeScript: @Next- should I use it?

NativeScript: Android application upgrade issues

Updated Information: A RELATED ISSUE CAN also effect ALL normal android applications that are just a simple upgrade in that your newly upgraded app WON'T be upgraded properly on the device.  The client running your app, will revert to the prior version and/or prior data. This doesn't normally crash the app, like the original issue… Continue reading NativeScript: Android application upgrade issues

Allowing TypeScript to understand NativeScripts ~/ home path

I know a wide number of you use TypeScript; well one of the irritations I've had with TypeScript -- I just figured out how to solve.   Finally did some research and tests to figure out how to make TypeScript support using ~/ as a normal path for building and determining editor intellisense since this is… Continue reading Allowing TypeScript to understand NativeScripts ~/ home path