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… Continue reading NativeScript: Version 2.3.0 Released
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
I've seen this error myself a couple times and it appears that several others have ran into it.. You type something like tns run android or tns build android and it gives you an error about some process failing to build -1 error and to try a --stacktrace to see more info... Not entirely helpful. … Continue reading NativeScript: Debugging the Android Build Process
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?
The NativeScript team released a cool plugin using the "WebPack" code to packup the entire code base and since it does things like tree shaking; your end result is a much smaller app. Well I had an opportunity to test it over the last couple weeks for a friend of mine (Nathan Walker) as he… Continue reading NativeScript: WebPacking
For those who are unaware; I've started doing paid content; see my post on "Why Patreon" to see the reasons. I'm going to attempt to keep this post updated with plugins and posts that are available to those who are my patreon supporters. Posts: Shrinking the application IPK/APK size: https://www.patreon.com/posts/shrinking-size-5867970 Using the new TNS Clean… Continue reading NativeScript: Patreon Posts & Plugins
WooHoo, 2.1 is finally released. Lots of things fixed and several other cool new things added; here is some of the changes in v2.1; TNS Clean command! Fix for faster Building (really affects Angular 2 builds) Fix for Google library and default Config issues. several naviation crashing issues fixed several LiveSync issues fixed Lots of… Continue reading NativeScript 2.1 released (and common issues/fixes)