Wednesday, March 11, 2015

NativeScript, ReactNative, for iOS, Android, and Windows apps

JavaScript goes native for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps | InfoWorld
"NativeScript, a Telerik technology for building multiplatform native mobile apps from a single code base, is set to go to a 1.0 release in late April. Telerik is launching a beta program this week for the open source NativeScript.

The NativeScript website and GitHub page describe the runtime as enabling developers to use JavaScript and TypeScript to build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone (via the Windows Universal strategy) and share code across the platforms. "Developers who have that Web skill set who want to build truly native applications should be really excited because there is now a way for them to do that" without having to learn custom languages or frameworks

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NativeScript produces apps that have a native UI... the app is not HTML-rendered in a Web view -- as you get with hybrid apps or traditional browser apps. ... [NativeScript enables] the underlying JavaScript engines on iOS, Android, and Windows to control a native UI layer.
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NativeScript provides full access to the native platform API, and it features a prepackaged JavaScript virtual machine"

A similar solution was available for a while with

Windows 8 also has similar apps solution with WinJS




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