NativeScript-Cheat-Sheet

Often used. Rarely remembered.

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Contents

• CLI

• Update NativeScript

• Update tns-core-modules and tns-core-modules-widgets

• Visual

• iOS Blurred background modal

• iOS Drop Shadow

• iOS TabView icons are grey when deselected

• iOS Remove left inset from ListView Cells

• iOS Default Switch Styles

• View manipulation

• Get view size and position

• Build

• Podfile.lock: No such file or directory - XCode error

• Cutomise plugin

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CLI

Update NativeScript

$ npm install -g nativescript

Install specific version

$ npm install -g nativescript@3.4.2

Check current version

$ tns --version

Update an existing application (Available after NS 2.4.0. Run in app root)

$ tns update

Update tns-core-modules and tns-core-modules-widgets

$ tns plugin remove tns-core-modules
$ tns platform remove android
$ tns platform remove ios

Current release version

$ tns plugin add tns-core-modules

@next version

$ tns plugin add tns-core-modules@next

Specific version

$ tns plugin add tns-core-modules@2.4.0-2016-10-05-4321

Remove your node_modules, platforms and hooks folders.

$ tns platform add android
$ tns platform add ios

Don't forget! - Add signing identity to xcode project. Then - iOS TabView icons are grey when deselected

Visual

iOS Blurred background modal

var Platform = require('platform');

if (Platform.isIOS) {
    page.ios.providesPresentationContextTransitionStyle = true;
    page.ios.definesPresentationContext = true;
    page.ios.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.UIModalPresentationOverFullScreen;
    page.ios.view.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor;

    // SET BLURRED BACKGROUND
    var pageBounds = page.ios.view.bounds;
    var navEffectView = UIVisualEffectView.alloc().initWithEffect(UIBlurEffect.effectWithStyle(UIBlurEffectStyleLight));
    navEffectView.frame = {
        origin: { x: 0, y: 0 },
        size: { width: pageBounds.size.width, height: pageBounds.size.height }
    };
    navEffectView.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
    page.ios.view.addSubview(navEffectView);
    page.ios.view.sendSubviewToBack(navEffectView);
}

iOS Drop Shadow

var Platform = require('platform');
var colorModule = require("color");
  
if (Platform.isIOS) {
  var myElement = page.getViewById('myElement');
  myElement.ios.layer.masksToBounds = false;
  myElement.ios.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.0;
  myElement.ios.layer.shadowRadius = 1.0;
  myElement.ios.layer.shadowColor = new colorModule.Color('rgba(0,0,0,0.2)').ios.CGColor;
  myElement.ios.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, 2.0);
}

iOS TabView icons are grey when deselected

See this issue: NativeScript/nativescript-angular#395 (comment)

• navigate to node_modules/tns-core-modules/ui/tab-view
• open tab-view.ios.js
• at line 285 (as of tns-core-modules v2.4.0-2016-09-21-4189) find the following line

var originalRenderedImage = is.ios.imageWithRenderingMode(0);

change to

var originalRenderedImage = is.ios.imageWithRenderingMode(1);

iOS Remove left inset from ListView Cells

var listViewModule = require("ui/list-view");

if (Platform.isIOS) {
    var listView = page.getViewById('listView');

    listView.on(listViewModule.ListView.itemLoadingEvent, function (args) {
        args.ios.separatorInset = UIEdgeInsetsZero;
    });
}

iOS Default Switch Styles

Switches inherit styles from the page CSS causing them to behave strangely. I haven't found a way to "reset" these styles back to default with CSS.

var switch = page.getViewById("switch");

if (Platform.isIOS) {
    switch.ios.tintColor = UIColor.greyColor;
    switch.ios.onTintColor = UIColor.colorWithRedGreenBlueAlpha(0.36, 0.86, 0.40, 1.0); // Default green
    switch.ios.thumbTintColor = UIColor.greyColor;
}

View manipulation

Get view size and position

var elBounds = el.ios.layer.bounds;
var elWidth = elBounds.size.width;
var elHeight = elBounds.size.height;

var elFrame = el.ios.frame;
var elX = elFrame.origin.x; // within parent
var elY = elFrame.origin.y; // within parent

var elPosition = el.getLocationInWindow();
console.log(elPosition.x); // within window
console.log(elPosition.y); // within window

Build

Podfile.lock: No such file or directory - XCode error

NativeScript/NativeScript#3046

Cutomise plugin

Edit, package and install plugin

(Step 5 should be tsc) NativeScript/nativescript-imagepicker#91 (comment)