One of the interesting things about the v8 engine is there is a lot of development going on behind the scenes that you can actually enable right now. This is supported in NodeJS, Chrome, and yes even NativeScript. Currently v8 for NativeScript 1.7 Android is running on v4.7.80 -- So because this is fairly… Continue reading NativeScript: Enabling beta android v8 features
NativeScript 1.7.0 released a new feature that several people have been waiting for with baited breath. Well 1.7.0 is out, and so I just had to see how this new feature worked. Unfortunately its implementation does leave a bit to be desired; but I fully understand the constraints so at the moment we will over… Continue reading NativeScript: Deep dive into Activity/Application overrides
Since I have been posting these since the early versions of NativeScript; I figured I would continue. It has been several months since the last major upgrade and this version has all sorts of bug fixes and new goodies. The changelog is available at https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/releases/tag/v1.7.0 The biggest new feature is the ability to override the… Continue reading NativeScript: Upgrading to v1.7.0
If your on Linux or OSX you can skip this post; it only applies to us pathetic people that prefer Windows (like me ). I do have Linux and OSX, so maybe I'm not that pathetic; but since I do prefer Windows, maybe I am. If you don't want to read the reason this occurs… Continue reading NativeScript: Android plugins and Windows path size issues
Quite frequently you want to control what happens when your user hits the back button, well this is actually pretty simple to do on Android. I've seen this question pop up several times; so it makes good blog post fodder. You can either do this totally globally; or on a per page basis. Globally, you… Continue reading NativeScript - Capturing the Back Button on Android