Hi, thanks for stopping by and hopefully this blog post will answer the question; NativeScript: "Why Patreon?" I think it goes without saying that I have been a valuable participant in the Nativescript community since NativeScript was first released. However, for those who don't know who I am, here is a really quick summary. I… Continue reading NativeScript: Why Patreon?
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
When you are trying to access any of the native android platform using TypeScript, TS will complain about the root name -- TS2304: Cannot find name 'zzzz' at line yyyy TypeScript is unaware that those variables exist and are actually global in scope; so to make TypeScript happy; in your code you will want to… Continue reading NativeScript, TypeScript and accessing native Android runtimes
You might have decided to be an early adopter of the awesome new version of NativeScript release and then unfortunately do to some bug regretted that choice. Well here is how to easily downgrade back to a version you prefer. First of all, you normally do NOT need to downgrade the actual TNS / nativescript… Continue reading Downgrading NativeScript
It has been a long road since I first started with the just freshly released v0.90 slightly over a year ago. I saw a product that was brand new, raw, full of life and it offered a huge amount of potential. I decided that even though it wasn't nearly as popular as other recently released… Continue reading NativeScript 2.0
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