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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 …
Continue reading “Memory management in NativeScript for Android”
I am glad to announce that yesterday we released NativeScript 2.4. This is all good, but in this post I would like to discuss the future. If you take a look at the next GitHub milestone you will see this So, why 2.5.0-RC? There are many reasons for this. Firstly, it is hard to make …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading “Java Class Inheritance in NativeScript for Android”
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.