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)
For those who haven't deployed any apps in v2.4 of NativeScript; one of the new features that is turned on by default is SnapShots. Now most the time this is a AWESOME thing, however occasionally this can cause issues. For example I have one app of mine that this crashes at startup when using SnapShots.… Continue reading NativeScript Android Snapshots
I've seen this error myself a couple times and it appears that several others have ran into it.. You type something like tns run android or tns build android and it gives you an error about some process failing to build -1 error and to try a --stacktrace to see more info... Not entirely helpful. … Continue reading NativeScript: Debugging the Android Build Process
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
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
UPDATE: Works on iOS and Android; see https://AppProtection.net. Have you spent months working on the perfect application? Are you now worried someone will just copy your source code right from your NativeScript application? (This is not a unique issue to NativeScript; ReactNative, Titanium*,Cordova/PhoneGap and any other platforms that are not compiling Java code have this… Continue reading Introducing NativeScript-Protect
NativeScript v1.1.0 was just released a couple days ago. Here is what is new and how to get all the cool new features. Some of the changes are: Exposing Application events as Real Event [example] Parent is now exposed in itemLoading event Repeater Component Added [more] TabView.selectedIndexChanged Event added Hint property for TextView NavigatingTo/From,… Continue reading NativeScript v1.1.0 - Released