The new version of NativeScript just dropped today! As usual the update is worth getting for several features that are shipping in it. Major Features LiveSync now uses Sockets on Android iOS and Android now support the `discardUncaughtJsExceptions` flags. Simpler Templates (less NPM dependencies) Android now support HTTP Gzip'd packets Debugging Webpacked apps Minor Features… Continue reading NativeScript 4.2 Released
On thing most people are probably not aware of is that the Android runtimes has a large number of knobs and switches to customize certain behavior of the engine. I will try and list out all the current switches and knobs that you can use. iOS now has one switch. First of all the settings… Continue reading NativeScript application wide runtime settings (updated 5.2)
I took a bit of a break from reporting on NativeScript things; but guess what, I'm BACK!!! Well, looks like I was on the ball again this time. 😉 4.1.0 has been released to NPM, and it is HOT! Version 4.0 was a great release and all; had a lot of cool changes. But… Continue reading NativeScript 4.1.0 Released
UPDATE: After a lot of direct testing; this technique does NOT work for fixing and/or updating iOS delegates. NativeScript does NOT follow the JavaScript specs in this area. (in other words NativeScript is broken/buggy here, but I do not expect to see a fix for it.) So even though the JS engine updates the… Continue reading NativeScript iOS Delegates and easy access to modifications.
And the second talk I was in at the NativeScript 2017 DevDays, us now up. My cohorts in crime; and my awesome nStudio team mates; Nathan Walker and Brad Martin is now up. Audio is a little low; but you can hear everything. Unfortunately, the majority of my information was chopped since we ran out… Continue reading NativeScript Plugins: A Deep Dive - With the Three Stooges
Well my video for Performance from the Trenches, was released today! This is the talk I gave at the NativeScript Developer Days 2017. There is a lot of good useful information in this Talk, so enjoy. Slide Deck: Performance NativeScript App: https://github.com/NathanaelA/PerformanceFromTheTrenches V8-Natives Repo: https://github.com/NathanaelA/v8-natives
Been a while since I posted; and most this info was going to be presented at the NativeScript Developer days speech that we ran out of time in our cool session. So I'm going to present it here, because I think this will help a lot of people. First of all, NativeScript has an issue… Continue reading NativeScript and Console logging on iOS (including XCode 9)
Well, looks like I was on the ball this time; I actually beat Progress to the punch. 😉 3.2.0 has been released to NPM. Blur and Focus events added Android keeps nativeView when navigating forward to eliminate the tear down and re-build when navigating back. Nasty memory leaks in iOS fixed; this one is worth… Continue reading NativeScript 3.2.0 Released
Looks like I was asleep at the wheel; according to NPM 3.1 was released late last week; and I totally missed it. However, I am more on the ball today and saw that 3.1.1 was released today to fix some of the issues with 3.1. So lets cover the changes in both 3.1 & 3.11… Continue reading NativeScript: 3.1.x released
Short version: Nope... 😉 Long Version: I see this pop up frequently in the bug tracker and slack where someone is complaining about a issue; then we all find out it is a issue in the @next version. Unfortunately Telerik really did everyone a huge disservice when they named it @next. This is not actually… Continue reading NativeScript: @Next- should I use it?
