For those hiding out in the forest; guess what was released by our cool park rangers at Telerik today! Yes, you got it - v2.3.0 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 as I and others run into them....
New or Fixed Features:
- iOS XCode 8 support for iOS 10 support - * (I've heard this might not be fixed yet)
- Navigation memory leak squashed
- Android Text Hint Color supported
- Buttons now support text-decoration and text-transformation properly
- iOS d.ts generator works properly
- Android Extend working properly again
- Android now properly re-throwing exceptions (better error messages)
- Android a couple crashing corner cases fixed
- Observables fixed (was broken in some nested situations in 2.2.0)
A Lot of other smaller bug fixes and enhancements went into place; unfortunately the really big feature for 2.2.0 & 2.3.0 has slipped again -- threads. It was a lot bigger than they expected; I've seen progress on both Android and iOS on this front; based on the activity it should be showing up in the masters channel soon, meaning we will be able to test and play with it soon.
Upgrading:
First of all to upgrade is done is a couple steps:
> npm install -g nativescript
> npm install tns-core-modules@latest --save
For Android:
> tns platform remove android
> tns platform add android
For iOS
> tns platform remove ios
> tns platform add ios
Then you can type tns info and verify that everything says v2.3.x
Common Issues
Images and a parent that has Color set, causes the image to not show only the color that was set on iOS. To fix you can do this a couple ways. Remove the color on the parent. Upgrade or disable the broken source (Line 133
image._setTintColor(newValue);
in "node_modules/tns-core-modules/ui/image/image.ios.js, comment it out.