{"id":1076,"date":"2019-09-04T16:41:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T16:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2019-09-06T01:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T01:18:13","slug":"nativescript-6-10-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"NativeScript 6.10 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NativeScript 6.10 has several fixes, and a couple new features to make it worth your time to upgrade. 6.1 has to be one of my favorite recent releases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Being biased here, the best fix is the PR I did; it allows the tns command line to actually be used with our awesome https:\/\/proplugins.org<\/a> site. You could easily use NPM to work around the issue; but it is always better if the standard NativeScript cli tooling also works. So, I am ecstatic to see this show up in 6.1. So now completely removing my bias; the new ios wifi deployment support (which I haven't tested); is something I have really needed for a while, so awesome job team! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Core Modules<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Their are a couple changes in Core modules that are worth noting. First of all; for those who have used my awesome nativescript-platform-css<\/a> plugin for years; the NativeScript team finally decided I was right! \ud83d\ude00 They have not only stolen<\/strike>, er, borrowed, the idea to put device type in the class name (ns-android<\/code> & ns-ios<\/code>) , but they also borrowed the same idea I did in my nativescript-orientation<\/a> plugin, which is put the orientation (ns-landscape<\/code> & ns-portrait<\/code>) into the class also. Unfortunately, I am a bit sad they still didn't have the foresight to borrow my poor-mans-media query system; it is still way better than nothing. Nor did they decide to use the device name css system, or any of the additional classes like .notch<\/code>. So if you still need media query or actual device name support or anything else the platform-css; then you can continue to use the ns-platform-css plugin. And the ns-orientation plugin still offers the ability to force rotation and\/or lock the rotation to a certain direction, so neither plugin will be discontinued because of the additional functionality both plugins still offer that the team didn't borrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition another community PR was accepted to add CSS calculation support! Unfortunately do to a minor oversight, it is broken in 6.10, but I would guess it should be fully fixed in 6.11. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This team has hit several home runs this release with me. In addition to getting my PR merged which solves the npm issues. They also added awesome iOS Wifi deployment support. And added iOS 13 and Xcode 11 support. Overall the CLI release looks to be a very awesome release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Android<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Android added several cool things in 6.1 also. First and foremost; Initial Kotlin compatibility has been added. This is very preliminary; so many things may not work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second they upgraded the the v8 Engine to 7.6 which adds the following features and enhancements<\/p>\n\n\n\n