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NativeScript
ByNativeScriptNativeScript

NativeScript

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What is NativeScript?

NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.

NativeScript is a tool in the Frameworks category of a tech stack.

Key Features

100% Access to Native Platform APINativeScript is free of charge as an open source projectCode with JavaScript. Style with CSSCross-platform UI abstractionsShared business logic and data models

NativeScript Pros & Cons

Pros of NativeScript

  • ✓Access to the entire native api
  • ✓Support for native ios and android libraries
  • ✓Angular 2.0 support
  • ✓Support for javascript libraries
  • ✓Native ux and performance
  • ✓Typescript support
  • ✓Backed up by google and telerik
  • ✓Css support
  • ✓Cross-platform declarative ui and code
  • ✓Fully open source under apache 2.0 license

Cons of NativeScript

  • ✗Lack of promotion
  • ✗Slower Performance compared to competitors

NativeScript Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to NativeScript?

React Native

React Native

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

Flutter

Flutter

Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Ionic

Ionic

Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.

Xamarin

Xamarin

Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Expo

Expo

It is a framework and a platform for universal React applications. It is a set of tools and services built around React Native and native platforms that help you develop, build, deploy, and quickly iterate on iOS, Android, and web apps.

Apache Cordova

Apache Cordova

Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

NativeScript Integrations

LokiJS, Tipe, JScrambler, Android OS, iOS and 2 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with NativeScript. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with NativeScript.

LokiJS
LokiJS
Tipe
Tipe
JScrambler
JScrambler
Android OS
Android OS
iOS
iOS
GameAnalytics
GameAnalytics
Svelte Native
Svelte Native

NativeScript Discussions

Discover why developers choose NativeScript. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Mohammad Opada Al-Bosh
Mohammad Opada Al-Bosh

Founder

Aug 22, 2019

Needs adviceonNativeScriptNativeScript

I use NativeScript because it's a fast powerful easy framework to build a mobile app. You code once and build multiple platforms.

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Baskar Naga
Baskar Naga

Dec 14, 2018

Needs adviceonNativeScriptNativeScript

I have always been looking to develop mobile applications, but it has been a challenge to me to learn Native Android and IOS programming. Considering my background as web developer, NativeScript came to my rescue as I was able to utilize my existing web developer skills to develop native mobile applications.

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leonardo silveira
leonardo silveira

Software Engineer

Nov 30, 2018

Needs adviceonNativeScriptNativeScriptApache CordovaApache CordovaVue.jsVue.js

So, i am preparing to adopt NativeScript.

For years my hybrid projects used Apache Cordova.

"Let's avoid to maintain two teams and double the deliver velocity".

It was good for a few years, we had those september issues, (i.e. apple broke some backward compatibility) , but for the last years, things seems to be losing the grip faster.

Last breaking changes, for instance, seems to have a workaround, however that growing feeling that simple things can not rely on so fragile webviews keeps growing faster and faster.

I've tested nativescript not only on it's "helloworld", but also on how do they respond on issues.

I got tweed support. I opened an github issue and got answers on less than 10 hours (yes i did it on another timezone and very close to a weekend). I saw the faulty docs get corrected in two days.

The bad news is i only can adopt nativescript on newer projects, since there is no budget to revamp the current solutions.

The good news is i can keep coding on Vue.js , without vou router, but that's ok. I've already exchanged vanilla html for real native app with background magic enabled, the router can be easily reproduced.

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