NativeScript for Angular Mobile Development

By : Anderson, Nathan Walker

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NativeScript for Angular Mobile Development

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By: Anderson, Nathan Walker

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Overview of this book

NativeScript is an open source framework that is built by Progress in order to build truly native mobile apps with TypeScript, JavaScript or just Angular which is an open source framework built by Google that offers declarative templates, dependency injection, and fully featured modules to build rich applications. Angular’s versatile view handling architecture allows your views to be rendered as highly performant UI components native to iOS and Android mobile platforms. This decoupling of the view rendering layer in Angular combined with the power of native APIs with NativeScript have together created the powerful and exciting technology stack of NativeScript for Angular. This book focuses on the key concepts that you will need to know to build a NativeScript for Angular mobile app for iOS and Android. We’ll build a fun multitrack recording studio app, touching on powerful key concepts from both technologies that you may need to know when you start building an app of your own. The structure of the book takes the reader from a void to a deployed app on both the App Store and Google Play, serving as a reference guide and valuable tips/tricks handbook. By the end of this book, you’ll know majority of key concepts needed to build a successful NativeScript for Angular app.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Get Into Shape with @NgModule

Mental preparation

The module benefits

Finalizing CoreModule

Summary

Feature Modules

Player and recorder modules

Summary

Our First View via Component Building

Our first view via component building

Summary

A prettier view with CSS

It's time to get classy

Summary

Routing and Lazy Loading

Get your kicks on Route 66

Creating AuthGuard for RecorderModule

Handling late feature requirements – managing compositions

Summary

Running the App on iOS and Android

Taking command…

Android Keystores

Back in command

TNS command-line cheatsheet

Summary

Building the Multitrack Player

Implementing our multitrack player via the nativescript-audio plugin

Summary

Building an Audio Recorder

Phase 1 – Building an audio recorder for iOS

Phase 2 – Building an audio recorder for Android

Summary

Empowering Your Views

Multiple item templates with NativeScript's ListView

Summary

@ngrx/store + @ngrx/effects for State Management

Understanding Redux and integrating @ngrx/store

Summary

Polish with SASS

Polishing with SASS

Summary

Unit Testing

Unit testing

Summary

Integration Testing with Appium

Integration testing

Summary

Deployment Preparation with webpack Bundling

Using webpack to bundle the app

Summary

Deploying to the Apple App Store

Preparing for App Store distribution

Summary

Deploying to Google Play

Building an APK for Google Play

Summary

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A prettier view with CSS

One of the many key benefits NativeScript brings to native app development is the ability to style native view components with standard CSS. You will find great support for many common and advanced properties; however, some don't have a direct correlation, whereas others are completely unique to native view layouts.

Let's take a look at how to turn our first view into something pretty amazing with a few CSS classes. You will also learn how to utilize NativeScript's core theme to provide a consistent styling framework to build on.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

Using CSS to style views
Understanding some of the differences between typical web styling and native styling
Unlocking NativeScript powers with platform-specific files
Learning how to use the nativescript-theme-core styling...