This Week in NativeScript—August 23rd

It’s time for another This Week in NativeScript, your weekly collection of NativeScript links, plugins, and more 🚀

Before we get into the ever-amazing links for this week, a reminder: NativeScript Developer Day is now less than one month away!

We’re pumped too Mike. Make sure you register today so you don’t miss out. Now, on to the links!

Links

• Create a Weather App With TypeScript and NativeScript
  Wernher-Bel Ancheta with a really comprehensive tutorial on how to build a weather app in NativeScript using TypeScript.
• NativeScript Tweet Bot
  Mike Branstein totally build a bot that automatically creates NativeScript apps from a tweet, which is pretty awesome This article discusses the architecture.
• NativeScript Workshop Instructions
  An extraordinarily in-depth workshop by Mike Branstein showing how to build a mobile app version of an online vintage video game reseller (Tekmo) and a text-to-speech soundboard app. A great way to teach people NativeScript.
• Unit Testing A NativeScript Angular 2 Android And iOS Mobile Application
  Nic Raboy shows how to write unit tests for a NativeScript Android and iOS applications that use Angular 2 and TypeScript.
• NativeScript Android Buttons All CAPS (Angular 2)
  Scott Gerstl shows how to make your Android button text not all caps.
• Wire up RadSideDrawer with Angular 2
  Nathan Walker shows how to wire up RadSideDrawer from UI for NativeScript with Angular 2 taking full advantage of the Angular Router.

Plugins

• NativeScript OAuth 2 plugin
  A pretty amazing plugin from Alex Ziskind for that supports the OAuth 2.0 protocol for clients such as Microsoft Live, Microsoft Graph, Office 365, and Facebook. Plus it has a pretty sweet logo!
• NativeScript Server-Sent Events plugin
  Do you need to work with server-sent events in your NativeScript app? If so Osei Fortune has a plugin for you.
• NativeScript Local Notifications
  Eddy Verbruggen’s local notifications plugin now supports recurring notifications.
• NativeScript Toolbox
  Marcel Kloubert’s NativeScript toolbox plugin now has some additional features for dealing with Markdown, connectivity, and vibration.
• NativeScript Call Log
  A new plugin from Vojtěch Kozák for accessing a device’s call log history.
• NativeScript ng2 VLC Player
  Ever wanted to control VLC videos from a NativeScript app? If so, this new plugin from Habib Kazemi is for you!
• NativeScript OneSignal
  A new plugin from Robert Laverty that wraps the popular OneSignal push notifications SDK.
• NativeScript Badge Buttons
  Sean Perkins is at it again, this time with a handy plugin for adding badges to UI components on iOS.
• NativeScript LiveEdit
  Nathanael Anderson’s awesome LiveEdit plugin now supports TypeScript as a first-class citizen. Happy live-editing!
• NativeScript Background Geolocation
  An extraordinarily comprehensive plugin from Chris Scott for handling background geolocation in a battery-conscious way.

Stack Overflow Update

Nathanael Anderson built upon his all time lead this week, jumping back into the top 5 for the last 30 days (though Brad Martin hangs onto that top spot this week).

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/nativescript/topusers

And that’s it. As always, if we missed your link, plugin, or update, let us know in the comments. And happy NativeScript-ing!