This Week in NativeScript—August 16th

It’s time for another This Week in NativeScript, your weekly collection of NativeScript links, plugins, and more. I know you’re all excited to read some hot new NativeScript articles, but there’s an important development in the NativeScript world that we need to discuss first.

That’s right, there are now competing NativeScript cat and NativeScript dog Twitter accounts. If that’s not a sign of the success of NativeScript, I’m not sure what is.

And with that exciting development out of the way, on to the links!

Links

• Use Android API in NativeScript and Angular2 to Manipulate Images
  Bruno d'Auria shows how to perform a handful of really neat effects, such as linear gradients, grayscale filters, and more on Android using TypeScript.
• NativeScript with Angular2 catching a keystroke
  Scott M Gerstl shows how to automatically get information on the server as the value of a textfield changes.
• Multiple Overlapping Layers of Transparent PNG Images Using AbsoluteLayout in NativeScript
  Chris Flannagan, lover of superbly descriptive titles, provides enough detail on what his article is about that I don’t have anything more to say here.
• Use DropBox API with NativeScript
  Marcel Kloubert with an incredibly detailed walkthrough of the steps needed to hit the DropBox API, including a demo app with source.
• Using NativeScript With Angular 2.0
  A good intro to building mobile apps with NativeScript and Angular by Torgeir Helgevold, with some especially good tips on using RxJS.
• Best Practice Guide to Sharing Code Between Web and Native
  Nathan Walker, our resident Angular jedi master, put together some practical tips on how to share code between web apps and native apps in a single code base.

Plugins

• App Protection
  Nathanael Anderson launched a new site for his NativeScript encryption service for iOS and Android 🔒. Check it out!
• In-App Purchase
  Thanks to Peter Staev’s you can now easily request money from users in your NativeScript apps 💰. Whether they actually give you money, of course, is up to you 😀
• BackgroundFetch
  A really nice looking iOS background fetch implementation by Chris Scott.
• Social Share
  The NativeScript social share plugin now provides much nicer TypeScript syntax thanks to Brad Martin.

Snacks

• CSS button pressed selector
  Nathanael Anderson shows how to use the hip new :highlighting pseudo-class that landed in NativeScript 2.2.

Stack Overflow Update

Brad Martin is killing it on Stack Overflow lately, and is rapidly catching Nathanael on the all-time leader list. Also shout out to another Telerik Developer Expert, Osei Fortune, who is second on the “Last 30 Days” list, and who has also been extraordinarily helpful on the NativeScript Community Slack Channel.

And that’s it. As always, if we missed your link or plugin, make sure to let us know in the comments so we can get you on the list. Happy NativeScript-ing!