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Use A Side Drawer And Feature Rich List View In A NativeScript Angular App

March 2, 2017
Nic Raboy

I release a lot of content and build a lot of mobile applications using the NativeScript mobile framework, most of which includes Angular. Lately I’ve been getting many requests for information on using a side drawer within the application. These side drawer components can improve the user experience significantly so I figured I would explore the topic.

We’re going to see how to include a side drawer in our NativeScript Android and iOS application, built with Angular. To take things to the next level, we’re also going to include a feature rich list view as our core content.

March 1, 2017
Nic Raboy

When building mobile applications you’ll often find yourself needing to create child components. What do I mean by child components? Take for example a mobile application with two different screen groupings, one where the user is not signed in and the other where the user is signed in. In each of these groupings you could have multiple screens where the user is signed in and multiple screens where the user is not signed in. Each screen under the parent grouping can be considered a child component and they could possibly share a template from the parent. These child components often require nested routing to occur for a successful navigation.

We’re going to see how to create nested routes in a NativeScript mobile application built with Angular. You’ll see that things aren’t much different from creating standard routes in an Angular application.

February 24, 2017
Nic Raboy

Social media can be huge towards building your brand and promoting your mobile application. It can also make a difference in the user experience of your application. Allowing users to share text and media on their own social media profiles could be huge, no matter how you look at it. A while back I had demonstrated social media sharing in a vanilla NativeScript application for iOS and Android. While vanilla NativeScript is still a very valid option, I’ve been going the route of Angular lately, so I figured this topic could be revisited.

We’re going to see how to implement social media sharing features in a NativeScript mobile application build with Angular.

February 23, 2017
Nic Raboy

I am pleased to announce that Solar Flare for Cloudflare, my first mobile development project in a long time, has been published to the iTunes App Store and Google Play!

So what is Solar Flare and who is it designed for? This is a free application for managing data stored in Cloudflare on iOS and Android. If you’re unfamiliar, Cloudflare is an amazing service that acts as a content delivery network (CDN), among other things related to web performance and security.

February 17, 2017
Nic Raboy

Back when I had just started to learn NativeScript I had created a tutorial for using the native device clipboard for copying and pasting. The previous tutorial demonstrated this functionality in a vanilla JavaScript application. In an effort to clean up any loose ends, I figured it would be a good idea to convert this tutorial into an Angular equivalent. While nothing has really changed in the clipboard functionality, Angular is a very different animal.

We’re going to see how to copy and paste directly within an application built with Angular, TypeScript, and NativeScript.

February 13, 2017
Nic Raboy

In pretty much every mobile application that I’ve ever made, I’ve had a need to use some form of alert dialog. The problem with this is that standard alert dialogs are boring and can actually make your application less attractive. This is where Fancy Alerts come in.

In NativeScript, there is a plugin called Fancy Alerts that can display visually appealing alerts with nice animations. These alerts have smooth color schemes and can make your application that much more important. We’re going to see how to include such alerts in our NativeScript Angular application.

January 30, 2017
Nic Raboy

Back when I had just started working with NativeScript, about a year ago, I wrote a tutorial for displaying Toast notifications in Android. While still valid, it demonstrated these notifications using vanilla NativeScript and JavaScript. Not only that, but the notifications were only for Android. Since the framework has become significantly better, I figured it would be a good idea to demonstrate these Toast notifications in a NativeScript Angular application.

We’re going to see how to use a plugin to display Toast notifications in a NativeScript Android and iOS application built with Angular.