Updated for V5 of NativeScript I'm always having to reference my own notes to remember this; so I figured I would put a blog article up describing this so that everyone can benefit from my forgetfulness. 😉 NavigatingWhen you do a frame.topmost().navigate('destinationPage'); there is a specific order of events; Source page fires: navigatingFromDestination page fires:… Continue reading NativeScript: Page navigating order of events
In my prior post on fonter, I walked though how to use the text fonts. Several things have changed from that point in time; including iOS now auto-registers the fonts. So I want to revisit the information and cover what needs to happen with NativeScript 1.5.1 and newer. Setup The folder structure is still the… Continue reading Fonter - Revisited (iOS & Android NativeScript Fonts)
(Please make sure to read the update at the bottom of the post) So, I was minding my own business last week, by reading about everyone's issues in the NativeScript forum. Well, ok, so I wasn't minding my own business, we can pretend I was... So, I saw this post about CodeSign error: entitlements are… Continue reading Creating a plugin using third party code
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
The finalized chapters of my new upcoming book are at the publisher! The publisher has already put up the book listing on Amazon, it to be sold on Jan 6th 2016. I'll add the links to Google and Apple once I have them. So I can now actually start to talk about the book; and… Continue reading Getting Started with NativeScript
I figured I would add a post for this; since I've done one on most the other version. v1.4 & v1.5 are the most seamless upgrades so far. Kudos to the Telerik teams involved in this. You can now upgrade in like four simple steps. 1. npm install -g nativescript Ouch, that hurt, that was… Continue reading Upgrading to NativeScript v1.5
To update you need to upgrade a couple items, recommended that you do it in order. Also, a word of caution once you upgrade your NativeScript CLI, you need to upgrade your platform and common modules for any of your other projects. It is supposed to be backwards compatible; but I was not successful in… Continue reading Upgrading to NativeScript v1.3 from earlier versions.
WooHoo, I have finally released it; http://github.com/NathanaelA/NativeScript-Websockets. I only have been discussing it for almost a month. I had it working on Android almost a month ago; and then on iOS shortly afterwords. However, doing documentation; making a easy to use consistent interface, building install routines. And then fixing BUGS. Ouch, tracing bugs… Continue reading Announcing NativeScript-WebSockets!
Pros of Telerik's LiveSync: Works from the NativeScript Command Line No extra code added to your application! Possibly works on Real IOS Devices (Untested on real device, but does not currently appear to work on a IOS Simulator) Cons of Telerik's LiveSync: Not really Live. It syncs the files; but then has to restart the… Continue reading NativeScript v1.2.0 Built in LiveSync vs the NativeScript-LiveSync Plugin
We all need to start upgrading, Telerik has released v1.2.0 -- this is a important upgrade as it fixes several nasty bugs on IOS & Android! It also adds a lot of cool new features. 1. To upgrade the command line: npm install nativescript -g (On a mac or linux you might need a "sudo"… Continue reading NativeScript v1.20 Released