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One of the more advanced scenarios in NativeScript for Android is the inheritance of Java classes. Let’s take a look at the following example. // app.js var MyButton = android.widget.Button.extend({ setEnabled: function(enabled) { // do something } }); var btn = new MyButton(context); (Please note that at the time of writing NativeScript is in private …
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What could be simpler than a file copy? Well, it turned out that I underestimated such an easy task. Here is the scenario. During the very first NativeScript for Android application startup the runtime extracts all JavaScript asset files to the internal device storage. The source code is quite simple and it was based on …
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 …
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Today I am going to show you how to embed Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows Phone 8.1 app. Please note that at the time of writing this app won’t pass Microsoft Windows Store certification requirements. I won’t be surprised though if Microsoft reconsider their requirements in future. Last year Microsoft released JsRT which exposes C-style …
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After the first release of NativeScript I decided to spend some time playing with JavaScriptCore engine. We use it in NativeScript bridge for iOS and so far I heard good words about it from my colleagues. So I decided to play with JavaScriptCore and compare it to V8 engine. At present NativeScript supports Android and …
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I am happy to announce that yesterday our team released the first early preview of NativeScript. The last few months I worked on the JavaScript-to-Java bridge for Android platform. Check out the introductory blog post and the documentation pages.
The project I currently work on involves a lot of Java/JavaScript (V8 JavaScript engine) interoperability. Fortunately, Java provides JNI and V8 has a nice C++ API which make the integration process very smooth. Most of the Java-JNI-V8 type marshaling is quite straightforward but there is one exception. The JNI uses modified UTF-8 strings to represent …
I have recently read the article What Agile Teams Think of Agile Principles from Laurie Williams and it got me thinking. The study conclusion is as follows: The authors of the Agile Manifesto and the original 12 principles spelled out the essence of the agile trend that has transformed the software industry over more than …
I was curious to check how well the current browsers implement ECMAScript 262 specification. At the time of writing I have the following browsers installed on my machine: Google Chrome (34.0.1847.116 m) Microsoft IE (11.0.9600.17031 / 11.0.7) Mozilla Firefox (28.0) I guess Chrome, IE and Firefox present at least 90% of all desktop browsers. I …
The latest JustTrace version (Q1 2014) has some neat features. It is now possible to profile unmanaged applications with JustTrace. In this post I am going to show you how easy it is to profile native applications with JustTrace. For the sake of simplicity I am going to profile notepad.exe editor as it is available …