Prompt Users To Rate Your NativeScript Android And iOS App

So you’ve released this great application that you developed using NativeScript by Progress. The problem you might be facing now is that no one is rating or reviewing your mobile application. This may be related to the fact that it takes a bit of time to find an app in the app store and then leave a rating. A great solution to this is to prompt the user to rate your application and be automatically redirected to the app store listing should they agree to leave you a rating.

We’re going to see how to prompt users for feedback from within your NativeScript iOS and Android mobile application.

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

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.

Using Couchbase NoSQL In A NativeScript Angular Mobile App

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.

Converting Your Ionic 2 Mobile App To NativeScript

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.

Build A Simple Mobile App With NativeScript And Angular

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.

Install A Better Custom ROM On The Amazon Kindle Fire

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.

Send Emails In An Ionic 2 App Via The Mailgun API

Not too long ago I wrote about sending emails in an Ionic Framework app using the Mailgun API. To get you up to speed, I often get a lot of questions regarding how to send emails without opening the default mail application from within an Ionic Framework application. There are a few things that could be done. You can either spin up your own API server and send emails from your server via an HTTP request or you can make use of a service.

To compliment the previous post I wrote for Ionic Framework, I figured it would be a good idea to demonstrate how to use Mailgun in an Ionic 2 application.