The NativeScript framework automatically includes source files that are suffixed with the given platform name. This way the clutter and size of your built application is decreased and you do not distribute dead platform specific code that isn’t needed. But often there are case where is it much more simple to write your platform specific […]
After I showed you how to create a simple NativeScript application that implements in-app workflow using the nativescript-purchase plugin and how to set up and sandbox test the workflow on iOS. Now it is time to do same thing on Android. Preliminary Notes Before we start you must understand that if you want to test […]
In the previous part I’ve shown you how to create a small NativeScript application and add a simple purchase workflow using the nativescript-purchase plugin. Now it is time to wire things for iOS. In this part I will guide through adding the necessary settings on the Apple Developer portal and iTunes Connect, create some sandbox […]
Many mobile applications nowadays leverage the in-app purchase capabilities of both Android and iOS which gives users ability to buy digital goods. But since there are some tricks to get the native part going I’ve decided to write a 3-part in depth tutorial that will guide you through the full process of setting up in-app […]
In this article I will review one of the very common usage you encounter when developing a mobile application that shows a list of images (i.e. an image gallery) and how you can use {N}’s ImageCache object to enhance the user experience by caching all images so they are loaded only once. But let us […]
Last week Jen Looper from Telerik set a challenge to create an unofficial BBC News reader app built with {N}. After reviewing another app built with ReactNative, I was surprised at how unorganized RN code looked. There is an XCode project and also have some JS styles embedded in the JS. Knowing that {N} code […]
UPDATE (04/17/2016): Our prayers have been heard and the {N} team decided to continue support of the current plugin structure with AndroidManifest.xml in the plugin’s platforms folder in addition to the new .aar structure. You can read more about it here. As a {N} plugin developer last week it was brought to my attention that […]
In my previous post I’ve shown how to convert the public key of an XML formatted RSA key to the more widely used PEM format. The only limitation of the solution was that since it utilizes the Cryptographic Next Generation (CNG) algorithms it is usable only on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. So […]
Probably the people working with asymmetric cryptography have struggled for a way to convert the XML format of the RSA public key to the more widely used PEM format. Although there is a solution for the reverse transformation (from PEM to XML) on the following address http://www.jensign.com/opensslkey/opensslkey.cs I have not found anywhere a solution to […]
If you have used Telerik’s RadMaskedTextBox for Silverlight most probably in some cases you have needed to bind in TwoWay mode the MaskedText property of the control (for example for Phones, SSNs, etc. that need to be saved with the punctuation). And most probably you were surprised that you cannot do this because the MaskedText […]