Please note this to my knowledge only works with NativeScript-Core / PAN (Plain Awesome NativeScript) applications. I do not believe this will work with the Vue or Angular variations of NativeScript. There maybe another way to accomplish this with those variations, and if you know how -- please let me know and I'll update this… Continue reading NativeScript-Core replacing the root view...
The next major version of NativeScript (version 6) will be switching from the android.support packages to the new androidx namespace. This will be a hard break; as you can only use the support api's or androidx api's; but not both. This is something Google has been implementing for a while; and NativeScript is getting on… Continue reading NativeScript AndroidX support and Plugins
NativeScript 5.3 only offers a smaller number of fixes and features than usual; but is still well worth upgrading to. The most interesting update (for me) is actually the Android V8 engine has been upgraded yet again, but this time to a version that offers some nice performance benefits. It is always nice when an… Continue reading NativeScript 5.30 Released
Security is never perfect, the minute the device is under the control of an attacker; you have issues. So the primary goal of security is to raise the bar so high; that it becomes much more profitable to attack your competitors app then your app. Don't make your app the easy target. So, recently I… Continue reading Mobile Application Security
NativeScript 5.2 offers a wide number of fixes, and is well worth upgrading to. Checkout what has now been fixed and/or enhanced in this awesome release from the NativeScript team. One of the more interesting things for iOS is the In App Podfile and Src code support. Drop your any src code into the /App_resources/ios/src… Continue reading NativeScript 5.2.0 Released
The first release of NativeScript-SQLite was April 19th, 2015 on GitHub, and April 26th to NPM. I am happy to say this plugin is now almost 4 years old, and it was one of the first plugins available to NativeScript. I believe there was two or three others released before, like NativeScript-Flashlight. By June of… Continue reading NativeScript-SQLite Multi-Threading!
Even more fixes have come down the pike. Based on some of the bugs that have been squashed it appears that if you are using v5.1.0 you want to upgrade to v5.1.1 as it should make your life a little easier. Core ModulesT Technically they released 5.1.1 of the core modules last month; as it… Continue reading NativeScript 5.1.1 Released
For those who upgraded to 5.0.0 last month, it was a bit of a rough ride. A lot of cool features but a lot of weird corner case broken items. Fortunately since that point, they have released a several 5.0.x point releases which fixed several of the larger flaws. 5.1.0 actually fixes several of the… Continue reading NativeScript 5.1.0 Released
The all new "tns preview" feature in NativeScript 5.0 is very useful for testing small local projects and/or for new developers who want to try out NativeScript without installing all the build tools. However, the preview app has some limitations, some of them can be worked around. The first is that you must have working… Continue reading The "tns preview" Feature
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