Give Your NativeScript Mobile App An Ionic Framework Theme

I’ve been developing and writing about NativeScript for a while now. One of the things that everyone seems to bring up is that the UI NativeScript offers is unattractive in comparison to frameworks like Ionic. Sure, it may be unattractive, but it is a native UI and had you been developing with Java or Objective-C things would be no different. The UI is what you make of it.

I understand not everyone is a top notch UI designer so I thought I’d share a custom theme that will give you an attractive theme in your application. If you’re familiar with Ionic Framework, it will probably look very similar since the designer, Rob Lauer, made this theme to match.

We’re going to see how to give our native application created with NativeScript a familiar Ionic Framework theme.

Build A Password Manager For iOS And Android Using NativeScript

There are many password managers on the market right now for Android and iOS. I personally use a mobile application called 1Password, but what if you’re the type of person who doesn’t trust these companies with your sensitive passwords? The solution to this would be to build your own password management application, one where you know the algorithms and the logic. I mean, what if the available password managers are using DES encryption when they should be using AES? Best thing to do would be to do the job yourself.

We’re going to see how to develop a password manager for iOS and Android using the NativeScript framework by Progress Software. The application that we build will be completely functional, have a polished UI, and use all the best practices for cipher text and mobile development.

Install Xcodeproj For NativeScript iOS Development On Mac OS

I’ve been developing Android applications for quite some time, but with all the various cross platform or hybrid web frameworks available, I’ve slowly been drawn into developing iOS applications as well. I’ve touched iOS here and there, whether it be with Ionic Framework or Telerik NativeScript, but never really did much with it or learned how it ticked. This story is around the Xcodeproj tool for managing Xcode projects with Ruby.

Recently Telerik NativeScript, a framework I’ve been using heavily, decided to start requiring Xcodeproj, something it didn’t require at the beginning. This prevented me from being able to build or run for iOS until I got it installed. We’re going to take a look at what needs to be done to install Xcodeproj on Mac OS.

Let’s be clear, Xcodeproj is not specific to NativeScript. It is a pretty standard thing in the iOS development world and is a valuable item to have installed.

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.

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.