Have the CLI manage project properties

[tjvantoll]

This came up from a discussion in NativeScript/NativeScript#145.

Basically it would be nice to be able to configure properties about your app in either your app/package.json or your .tnsproject file, and have those changes propagate to the appropriate places in the platform-specific config files. All of these are things AppBuilder does with its .abproject file, and it would be nice to have a few of those in the NativeScript CLI. At the moment the four specific things I'm looking for are:

• Display name ("DisplayName" in .abproject).
• Id ("AppIdentifier" in .abproject)
• Version ("BundleVersion" in .abproject)
• Android version ("AndroidVersionCode" in .abproject)

id is already set in .tnsproject, but to my knowledge you can't configure the rest of these things without changing iOS/Android config files manually.

[Fatme]

Hi @tjvantoll,

You're completely right. Currently the user is not able to configure project properties without changing iOS/Android config files manually.
I've just added this as feature request.

[valentinstoychev]

This issue is related here: NativeScript/NativeScript#252 (comment)

[jlooper]

I'd like to be able to give my app a display name, set in package.json as TJ noted above. Is it possible to do just this, as a part of this issue?

[mikebranstein]

@teobugslayer are you expecting to incorporate this into a post 1.5.0 milestone? Thanks!

[teobugslayer]

@mikebranstein,

It looks like we won't be able to implement this functionality for 1.5. Can you tell us more details about why you need this functionality for 1.5? This will help us prioritize our tasks better.