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Create A Toast Notification In Android With NativeScript

December 25, 2015
Nic Raboy

Toast notifications are a common thing in Android applications. They are convenient because you can display a message to a user and have it disappear shortly after without blocking any of the UI that might exist within the application. I already demonstrated how to display these notifications in an Ionic Framework application, but this time I’m changing gears to explain how it is done using Telerik NativeScript.

I wanted to start off by saying that I was inspired to write this article after reading Brad Martin’s post regarding the Snackbar notification in NativeScript. Both are common and useful ways to display notifications in mobile apps.

December 23, 2015
Nic Raboy

In most scenarios, when developing a mobile application, you’re going to want multiple pages or screens for displaying information. In Ionic Framework 1, you’d use the AngularJS UI-Router to navigate between pages, but things are different when it comes to Angular and Ionic 2. The UI-Router is not present in the latest version of Ionic Framework.

We’re going to take a look at navigating around an Ionic 2 application and see how easy it is.

December 21, 2015
Nic Raboy

At the moment Node.js is my web development language of choice, but occasionally I come across something that really grinds my gears. I sometimes find that I’ve fallen into an async hell that screws up a lot of things. For example, maybe I’ve designed an API endpoint that makes a few requests to external services. Before returning data to the client (user), manipulations must be done on the external service data requested. How do we do all this?

Let’s take a look how we would cover these scenarios.

December 20, 2015
Nic Raboy

Earlier this year (July), I wrote about my first year of blogging and the stats around it and I feel it was important because it was my first year.

This time I’m going to write about my activity in 2015 and report the stats around it. The plan is to do this every year and possibly inspire other developers to start blogs of their own.

December 18, 2015
Nic Raboy

With all the buzz around NativeScript, I figured it was about time that I demonstrate how to access native features of a device without the use of any plugins. To start off slow I decided it might be convenient to see how to obtain the application version number and display it within the application.

To be clear, there are plugins to do all this for you, but the point I’m trying to prove is how easy it is to access core features of iOS and Android with limited knowledge of both.

December 14, 2015
Nic Raboy

Since the release of iOS 9, a ton of stress has been put on mobile developers because of forced changes that Apple put in place. The most common problem developers are facing resides in the App Transport Security (ATS) policies that Apple now requires when accessing insecure resources external from the deployed application.

This article is actually very similar to the one I wrote regarding Ionic Framework and Apache Cordova. The only difference is that this will be more specific to Telerik NativeScript.

December 7, 2015
Nic Raboy

To continue my sprint on Telerik NativeScript related topics, I figured it was time I talk about how to handle navigation to different routes or views within an application. With platforms such as React Native you would use a Navigator component and in platforms such as Ionic Framework you would use the AngularJS UI-Router. With NativeScript, it is even easier to navigate between routes.

In this guide we’re going to look at what it takes to navigate a multiple screen Android and iOS application using NativeScript.