Brosteins

Developers, Technology Evangelists, Bros.

Author: Nick Branstein

Audio, Gifs, and NativeScript Oh my!

It’s been quite a while since my last post. Last year was a busy year with more updates to the The NativeScript Book, but now it’s time to get back to blogging! For Christmas this year my wife got me a ukulele. Although I’m still terrible at playing I am really excited to learn. The ukulele got me thinking about all kinds of apps I…

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NativeScript Playground

Yesterday Mike and I had the privilege of giving a half-day workshop at Code PaLOUsa 2018. If you’re not familiar with Code PaLOUsa it’s “Software Development Madness” right here in Louisville, KY. Mike and I spoke about rapidly prototyping mobile apps using NativeScript and Angular where we created a SpaceX mobile app in a few hours. So how does one rapidly…

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The NativeScript Book

Today is a very exciting day for myself and Mike because our book, The NativeScript Book, is finally released! The best part is that it’s available online now available online now, for free, from Telerik! If an eBook isn’t your thing then print copies will be available soon on Amazon. I’d like to take a quick moment and thank my family,…

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NativeScript in Action Update – All Chapters

I’m pleased to announce that with the last MEAP update to NativeScript in Action all the remaining chapters were released! It’s been a long road over the last year but we’re finally done with all the chapters and can now share them with everyone. This last MEAP update was a large update and included chapters 13 through 17 which I’ve outlined briefly…

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NativeScript in Action Update – Chapter 12

If you’ve been following our last post – you’ll know that we have been releasing MEAP (Manning Early Access Preview) updates every couple of weeks. We’ve only got 2 chapters left to finish edits on so stay tuned for more updates to our progress on NativeScript in Action! Chapter 12 Released The lasted update to MEAP is Chapter 12, titled Deploying an Android App. In this…

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NativeScript in Action Update

We’re excited to share some important updates to our progress on NativeScript in Action. To start off, we’re nearly finished! We’re working through updates and edits on the last three chapters, and will be releasing MEAP (Manning Early Access Preview) updates every couple of weeks. Chapter 11 Released Our second announcement is that chapter 11 has been released to MEAP! Chapter 11, titled Refining…

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What NativeScript Means to Mobile Development

What NativeScript Means to Mobile Development Many moons ago we were in the pre-iPhone era. For those of you reading this who remember, we were carrying around our Windows 6 mobile phones and geeking out over the latest Samsung Blackjack. There were fewer platforms and devices back then. Nowadays, new devices come out monthly. The increasingly frequent rate that devices…

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js13kgames 2016

It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post; not that I haven’t wanted but working on NativeScript in Action has definitely kept me more than busy. In my extra spare time I made sure I was able to participated in js13kgames 2016. js13kgames 2016 If you aren’t familiar with js13kgames it is a yearly competition to create a…

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