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Note: This post will be a bit different from the previous ones. It’s intended to provide brief history as to why current NativeScript for Android implementation is designed this way. So, this post will be most useful for my Telerik ex-colleagues. Think of it as kind of historic documentation. Also, it is a chance to …
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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 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 …