It has been a long road getting to this point; but I'm happy to see that the NativeScript team released The final piece of the 5.0. The CLI tool which was the final piece was finally released on Nov 2nd; the rest of the pieces have been released for a couple days. 5.0 adds a… Continue reading NativeScript 5.0 Released
Once thing I was made aware of today was that not everyone knows the magic "debugger;" command. I suppose this makes sense; I rarely see it mentioned, but it is a very useful debugging command in the JavaScript world. The "debugger;" command is used to cause the application to stop and enter the debugger at… Continue reading NativeScript/JavaScript Tip: Debugging
So here I was again minding my own business on the forums again, and Ben posted he had been attempting to use this new feature of v1.5.x of NativeScript and it was failing. I responded it didn't work like that. Thankfully he was persistent and ignored my wrong response, and linked to the github issue… Continue reading NativeScript: Keeping your AndroidManifest.xml easily editable and under version control.
WooHoo! It has been such a long road to get this book published. I wrote a bit about it here. It is finally officially available on the Packt site for sale today! It should be available on the Amazon store by Monday the 1st of February. I will have a list of additional sites… Continue reading Getting Started with NativeScript - On Sale Now!
I figured I would add a post for this; since I've done one on most the other version. v1.4 & v1.5 are the most seamless upgrades so far. Kudos to the Telerik teams involved in this. You can now upgrade in like four simple steps. 1. npm install -g nativescript Ouch, that hurt, that was… Continue reading Upgrading to NativeScript v1.5
To update you need to upgrade a couple items, recommended that you do it in order. Also, a word of caution once you upgrade your NativeScript CLI, you need to upgrade your platform and common modules for any of your other projects. It is supposed to be backwards compatible; but I was not successful in… Continue reading Upgrading to NativeScript v1.3 from earlier versions.
In a lot of larger web sites it is pretty common that you use several third party resources like JavaScript. However, this is a potential malicious door into your customers computer via your website. What happens if the third party resource is changed by someone who does not have your best interests at heart. Your… Continue reading Adding External Resource Security
Hey, I finally got a few spare minutes and spent those few minutes building a quick and simple web site for fluentReports. However, I couldn't just do something totally "static" -- I had to do at least one page that was awesome. The fluentReports web site now has a fully working demo page (with 3 of… Continue reading fluentReports gets an actual web site.
WooHoo, I have finally released it; http://github.com/NathanaelA/NativeScript-Websockets. I only have been discussing it for almost a month. I had it working on Android almost a month ago; and then on iOS shortly afterwords. However, doing documentation; making a easy to use consistent interface, building install routines. And then fixing BUGS. Ouch, tracing bugs… Continue reading Announcing NativeScript-WebSockets!
Pros of Telerik's LiveSync: Works from the NativeScript Command Line No extra code added to your application! Possibly works on Real IOS Devices (Untested on real device, but does not currently appear to work on a IOS Simulator) Cons of Telerik's LiveSync: Not really Live. It syncs the files; but then has to restart the… Continue reading NativeScript v1.2.0 Built in LiveSync vs the NativeScript-LiveSync Plugin