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This guest blog post from Nick Branstein looks at using required form fields with Angular and NativeScript.
Create a chat interface using Angular, NativeScript, and Firebase
Did you know NativeScript provides an open source functional testing framework that works for both native and hybrid apps? Vasil Chimev gives us more information in this article.
Many npm modules depend on built-in Node modules like fs and crypto. Those modules aren't plain old JavaScript files so they can't be executed in the NativeScript runtimes. The nativescript-nodeify plugin stubbornly tries to make those modules {N} compatible.
Last week I sat down and talked to Mike and Nick Branstein, authors of NativeScript in Action. In the video Mike and Nick talk about what got them started with NativeScript, what made them want to write a book, and what the experience of writing a tech book is like.
Ever wondered how to navigate two or more separated sections of the screen independently? In this article I will explain how that can be done with the help of named router outlets.
Learn how to leverage BuddyBuild in your continuous integration workflow with NativeScript.
Learn how to install NativeScript and develop cross-platform mobile apps on Windows.
Georgi Atanasov gives us a sneak preview of NativeScript 3.0, due out in mid-April.
Mike and Nick Branstein offer an overview of working with data - part of their upcoming NativeScript in Action book from Manning.
Create a Twitter clone with NativeScript and Flexbox
Last year the NativeScript team took ng-conf by storm. This year we’re back with more—more workshops, more sessions, and more questionable outfit choices. See all the things we’re up to!
We sit down with PluralSight author and NativeScript Developer Expert Alex Ziskind to talk about his newest course, what he sees on the horizon for mobile development and some advice for aspiring video course developers.
Learn how to create an animation in AfterEffects, export it to a json file, and use it for beautifully smooth animations in your NativeScript apps using the Lottie plugin based on AirBnB's library.
If you're ready to take your animations in NativeScript to the next level, Alex Ziskind has just released another course on Pluralsight specifically for NativeScript and Angular animations.
Want to use a numeric keyboard in your iOS NativeScript app? Let's look at what's possible out of the box, as well as what's possible by using the power of NativeScript's extensible nature.
Another feature-packed release of NativeScript is available for download! Version 2.5 brings a variety of fixes and enhancements including support for WebPack 2.0, debugging via Chrome DevTools, and a variety of CLI improvements.
A new version of Telerik UI for NativeScript is here with a new Gauge control plus improved DataForm and AutoCompleteTextView components!
Meet our new Plugins Hub, a community-built marketplace for NativeScript plugins
The final article in our "week of NativeScript UI" series focuses on the Calendar control which allows you to easily leverage the native iOS and Android calendar UI.
Our "week of NativeScript UI" continues with this article on using the new AutoCompleteTextView control.
The next post in our "week of NativeScript UI" focuses on another free component - the SideDrawer.
This post in our "week of NativeScript UI" series focuses on the usage of the DataForm control to automatically create UI on top of existing data structures.
Welcome to our week of NativeScript UI! This first post goes into detail on our free UI component for managing native listviews for iOS and Android.
Welcome to our week of NativeScript UI! This second post dives deep into the NativeScript UI charts. You’ll learn about creating bar graphs, line charts, pie charts, and more.
Find out which app won the exciting holiday app contest.
Today we’re happy to announce that a chapter on NativeScript is now available as part of the popular ng-book 2, and we have an offer code so you can get the book at a discount.
Ever tried asking Siri to open the front door and still had to do it yourself? I feel your pain. Time to buy a few home automation devices and create an app for that!
AngularCamp is an inspiring event that is focused on the community of developers. Everyone here is important including the superstars and people who just begin their journey.
Having been a core contributor, I want to show you how to make the most of it by customizing the SASS it provides.
Create a mobile app using Angular 2, NativeScript and Firebase
When you develop mobile applications you should always be alert on the performance and always optimize. In this blog post I will walk you through a very effective pattern that describes optimizing the loading time of an application when using Angular. Meet "Angular Lazy Loading".
In the era of mobile devices, most of the user interactions with the device happen without additional hardware keyboards involved. This is comfortable for mobility purposes. However, the software keyboard is not always your best typing friend. To address the loss of tactile keyboards, most software keyboards offer some means for predictive completion. Often, the application developer would like the application user to choose from a defined set of choices. For example, the choices may be a list of origin airports serviced by an airplane company, or possibly a list of your friends in a social app context. In this case, the AutoCompleteTextView for NativeScript will be your best friend. Let’s dive in a little deeper into the useful features that the control provides.
Learning layouts in NativeScript can be tricky if you’re coming from a web development background. NativeScript’s 2.4 release included a familiar layout mechanism to help ease the learning curve for web developers—flexbox! Let’s look at how the new layout system works.
Raymond Camden fires up the NativeScript Developer Day crowd with an amazing talk on why we love what we do and how to love it more!
Just yesterday Facebook announced the release of their open source native library called "Keyframes” . It is a library that is able to export and playback Adobe After Effects animations.
With the latest and greatest release of nativescript-telerik-ui/pro the UI and feature rich components continue to grow. With 1.5.0 the RadDataForm is receiving new features and more examples that will ease its usage in common scenarios. Last, but not least it's getting Angular 2 support. Let's get straight to the features and enhancements.
One of the questions we receive from the community is how secure is NativeScript as a framework compared to the native iOS and Android frameworks. Very often there is not enough knowledge how the native frameworks protect the applications and how the use of JavaScript affects the “security” of the apps. So let's fix this! I will give you an overview of how the native apps protect the code and data and how NativeScript does this.
A new video course about NativeScript and Angular JS is now available on Udemy.
Hold tight - this is our biggest release ever. A lot of new features and polish were done in the last 2 months! With 360+ plugins for NativeScript it is clear that the community is now producing much more code than the core team. This is a huge milestone for every open source project. Thank you everyone for all the contributions and plugin work. Below you will see some major highlights of the core framework that were done by the community.
Jeff Whelpley discusses how to use the best Angular tools to use for NativeScript development.
Alex Ziskind shows you how you can build a native mobile application with NativeScript that calls into the newest iteration of Microsoft’s Graph API to fetch and update its data.
So your company already have one or more first class native mobile applications and is struggling to keep with all the changes and support they require to keep them in top condition? Maybe you have a larger team of web developers that you will be happy to work on your mobile apps?
Nathan Walker discusses his experience using NativeScript and Angular in a production application for the first time.
Giorgio Natili looks into the process of designing and implementing production ready resilient apps with NativeScript and Angular.
Nathanael Anderson shows how to setup, configure your unit testing for both running on a device and on Continuous Integration servers.
Per-side CSS borders have landed in NativeScript. Let’s look at how they work, and how you can use the new CSS properties in your next app.
Alex Vakrilov discusses the major concepts of Redux and shows how to use ngrx-store in a NativeScript Angular application.
This is a very compelling story for everyone that want to faster create first class mobile applications. But sometimes your company already have an existing native applications that they want to extend and do not want to start from scratch. Having two native versions of a mobile app causes just too much problems. You need to have often different people (or even teams!) that implement and support the apps. Syncing the feature set, need to write the app twice and paying to the developers for this is an unneeded overhead these days.
