Author: Nic Raboy

Create A Simple Todo List App Using Ionic 2 For Android And iOS

June 3, 2016

I’ve created a few tutorials around Ionic 2 while it was in its early alpha stage up until now. These tutorials explain how to use the bits and pieces that the framework or Angular offers, but I never demonstrated how to make a functional application. Seeing how to put the pieces together makes a huge difference when learning a new technology.

We’re going to see how to build a simple todo list type Android and iOS application using Ionic 2, Angular, and TypeScript.

May 30, 2016

Nic Raboy

Not too long ago I created a Couchbase NoSQL plugin with Mehfuz Hossain from Telerik for the NativeScript framework. Since developing the plugin it has received a lot of positive feedback and great developer adoption. Shortly after its release I published a blog post on how to use the Couchbase plugin in a NativeScript app. The blog post I had written focused on using NativeScript’s proprietary vanilla framework. Since then, Angular has been released for NativeScript, so it makes sense to make an Angular version of the tutorial.

We’re going to see how to create a cross platform NativeScript application that syncs, using Angular and Couchbase.

May 27, 2016

Nic Raboy

As many of you know, I had been using Apache Cordova based frameworks such as Ionic Framework for a long time. They are convenient and easy to use when it comes to rapidly developing cross platform applications. The problem with using Apache Cordova frameworks such as PhoneGap, Ionic Framework and Onsen UI is the performance limitations that come with them, particularly because of their use of the platform web view.

NativeScript is a mobile development platform that I recently switched to because it eliminates the performance issues that people experience with web view based frameworks. This is because it doesn’t render your application in a web view. Instead the application gets compiled to native code giving the same performance you’d see in an app that was developed with Objective-C or Java.

Being that I spent a long time with Ionic Framework and Ionic 2, which uses AngularJS and Angular, I figured it would make sense to show how easy it is to convert your application to NativeScript, which also uses Angular. As an end result you’ll get a cross platform web application, built with a modern framework, that is native.

May 25, 2016

Nic Raboy

I recently found myself needing to switch micro SD cards in my Raspberry Pi 3, not necessarily because it needed a storage upgrade, but more because I had a different device that needed the exact memory card that the Raspberry Pi was using. The problem was that I had already done a lot of work on the Raspberry Pi that I didn’t necessarily want to have to do again. This made me wonder. Could I just clone the micro SD card and be good to go? The answer was yes, and it really wasn’t difficult to do.

We’re going to take a look at how to clone or copy a Raspberry Pi memory card to a new one with potentially more space than the previous.

May 16, 2016

Nic Raboy

I’ve been building NativeScript applications for a while now using vanilla JavaScript and TypeScript. Even though NativeScript has been working with Angular for a while now, I’ve been holding off until it was more stable. Not stable from an Angular perspective, but more stable from a NativeScript and Angular perspective.

A few weeks ago at the AngularJS conference, ng-conf, Telerik announced that NativeScript was in a more compatible state when it comes to Angular. This was all the information I needed to start giving it a try.

We’re going to take a look at building a simple todo-like NativeScript Android and iOS application using Telerik NativeScript and Angular.

May 13, 2016

Nic Raboy

As some of you may know, I travel a lot. I am always on a plane without internet and not much to do. Up until now I’ve been using my iPad for watching the few movies I purchased from Google Play because Google Play lets you watch offline. The problem with this is my iPad doesn’t have a lot of storage space and can’t keep me entertained on a six or more hour flight. I heard Amazon Prime members can download movies for free and I saw that Amazon Kindle Fire tablets were only $40.00 with an expandable SD card slot.

I purchased one of these $40.00 tablets and a large micro SD card with the intention of downloading a bunch of movies as part of my Prime subscription. The problem is that my Prime subscription was part of a household account, which has fine print that says I can only stream, not download. This rendered the Kindle Fire tablet rather useless to me.

This lead me down the path of wanting to root the tablet and install a custom ROM to it. These are the things I did to turn my $40.00 disappointing Kindle Fire tablet into something comparable to the $200.00 tablets in circulation.

May 11, 2016

Nic Raboy

There are a lot of different ways to develop mobile applications. On my first two podcast episodes I discussed some of these app development solutions, but this time I’m doing a followup on one in particular. In this episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast, guest speaker TJ VanToll and I are going to take a deeper look at Telerik NativeScript, who should be using it, and what separates it from the other frameworks that exist.

TJ VanToll is a Developer Advocate for Telerik and is working on making the NativeScript framework a success for developers and enterprises. In Episode #5: Developing Mobile Apps with Telerik NativeScript, we’re going to cover everything that can be covered without actually looking at code. I ask TJ questions that I often receive on my blog as well as at events.

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