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!
NativeScript 5.1.1 Released
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
Australian AABill
If you look at my blog; I do believe this is the first article I've ever written about something political. I tend to be anti-political because I feel like it just divides us and tends to be just complaining with no one actually doing anything meaningful about it. However two days ago I noticed in… Continue reading Australian AABill
Security with Apps on iOS and Android.
Recently a person on twitter asked about a statement that Max made in a blog article which he did on the official ionic blog. For those who know me; I actually am pretty heavily into security; and I happen to have used many mobile technologies Cordova/Phonegap/ionic, Flutter, Titanium, React Native, Java, NativeScript, ObjC, Swift, etc -- so this… Continue reading Security with Apps on iOS and Android.
NativeScript 5.1.0 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 "tns preview" Feature
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
NativeScript 5.0 Released
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
NativeScript 4.2 Released
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
NativeScript application wide runtime settings (updated 5.2)
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)
NativeScript 4.1.0 Released
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