{"id":660,"date":"2019-02-13T18:47:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2019-02-13T18:47:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:47:05","slug":"nativescript-5-2-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"NativeScript 5.2.0 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/strong> and\/or a Podfile<\/code> in \/App_Resources\/ios<\/strong> and your app will automatically build it with your app. So you don't need to create a plugin to test or embed things in your app anymore. Plugins still are good for reusable code; but sometimes you might just have a simple function or Podfile that you just want added to your app. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Important Depreciation Notice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In version 5.2 short imports have been depreciated; I do not know when they will no longer actually work; but basically things like require(\"http\") are no long valid; you need to do require(\"tns-core-modules\/http\"). The primary reason for this is that webpacking requires the full path; and it has problems with short imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Core ModulesT<\/b><\/span><\/font><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The core modules offers the following enhancements and fixes...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dialog now supports Decimal type
ImageCache now has onError exposed
onDiscardedError now officially in the typings
Android model fixes
iOS Flat Actionbar fixes
Password hint support
Multiple crashes fixes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Android<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Upgrade to V8 7.1.302 - which offers
- Stable Sorting
- More bytecode embedded saving 200kb of memory per engine.
- Escape analysis improvements (up to 40% faster)
- globalThis support
- Intl.RelativeTimeFormat support
Android X support
Ability to free Java memory that is being retained by a JS object
Gradle 3.3.1 support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

iOS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

OnDiscardedError handler now works properly.
Can now manually free OBJC memory that is being retained by a JS object
Can now call ObjC methods with the same name but different parameters. (I've ran into this bug myself -- woohoo!)
GC tuning parameters
JSC tuning parameters<\/a>
Fixes in Exception handling
Memory allocation fixes
In App Podfile and native Src code support<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Node 11 support
Angular HMR support (finally fully working!)
--debug-brk<\/code> on iOS should be working again.
Unit testing should work on Android again.
Fixed High CPU usage issue.
generate splashscreens<\/code> should work again.
HMR will now update styles.

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Updating NativeScript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To get updated; you first need to do:
npm i -g nativescript@latest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That will get you the latest version of NativeScript CLI; once you have it; do a \"tns --version\" and verify it prints out \"5.2.x\".  Then do a \"tns doctor<\/strong>\" to verify your environment is up to date and has all the newest support tools you need for a successful build.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To update a project; you need to do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latest Runtimes:
tns platform remove android && tns platform add android@latest<\/strong>
tns platform remove ios && tns platform add ios@latest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latest Core modules:
npm r tns-core-modules --save<\/strong>
npm i tns-core-modules@latest --save<\/strong>
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To install Webpack & HMR support:
npm i nativescript-dev-webpack@latest --save-dev<\/strong>
Note: you need to have nativescript-dev-webpack as a development dependency for HMR to work.  
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To install latest NativeScript Angular plugin
npm i nativescript-angular@latest --save<\/strong>
You will then need to install the actual angular bits; which as of this post v6 is currently supported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of all the additional analytics\/tracking to the CLI reminded me; you can disable it permanently; if you value your privacy by doing:
tns usage-reporting disable && tns error-reporting disable<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Known issues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n