How Android Instant Run Works

Today I installed Android Studio 2.0 Beta 7 and I really enjoyed one of its new features, namely Instant Run. We built a similar feature for NativeScript, named LiveSync, so I was curious to how Instant Run feature works. The first thing I noticed is instant-run.jar placed in <my project>/build/intermediates/incremental-runtime-classes/debug directory. This library provides Server class …

What’s New in Chakra JavaScript Engine

A few weeks ago I decided to install Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview on my Nokia Lumia 630 and played a little bit with it. Since then, I have completely forgotten about it until yesterday when I saw a notification for pending software update (10.0.12562.84). So I grabbed the opportunity to see what changed in …

NativeScript Performance – Part 2

The last two weeks I was busy with measuring and optimizing the performance of NativeScript for Android. My main focus was the application startup time and I would like to share some good news. Results Let’s first see the results and then I will dig into the details. As in the previous tests I uses …

On NativeScript Performance

Overview Last week NativeScript made it into public beta and just for a few days we got tremendous amount of feedback. One question that came up over and over again was, “How do NativeScript Apps Perform”?  In this post, I want to explain the details behind performance and share some great news with you about …

First Impressions using Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones

Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones was released two days ago and today I decided to give it a try. The installation process on my Nokia 630 was very smooth and completed for about 30 minutes including the migration of the old data. Finally, I ended up with WP10 OS version 9941.12498. After I used …