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NativeScript for Angular Mobile Development

You're reading from   NativeScript for Angular Mobile Development Creating dynamic mobile apps for iOS and Android

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125766
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nathanael J. Anderson Nathanael J. Anderson
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Nathan Walker Nathan Walker
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Preface 1. Get Into Shape with @NgModule 2. Feature Modules FREE CHAPTER 3. Our First View via Component Building 4. A prettier view with CSS 5. Routing and Lazy Loading 6. Running the App on iOS and Android 7. Building the Multitrack Player 8. Building an Audio Recorder 9. Empowering Your Views 10. @ngrx/store + @ngrx/effects for State Management 11. Polish with SASS 12. Unit Testing 13. Integration Testing with Appium 14. Deployment Preparation with webpack Bundling 15. Deploying to the Apple App Store 16. Deploying to Google Play

Our First View via Component Building

We've been working hard at framing the base of our app in Chapter 2, Feature Modules, and now it's time to finally get a glimpse of what we're working with. This is all about getting that first view from our sketch to the mobile device screen.

Building views with NativeScript for Angular is not much different than view building for the web. We will use Angular's Component decorator to build various components our UI needs to achieve the desired usability we're after. Instead of using the HTML markup, we will be using NativeScript XML, which is an extremely powerful, yet simple and concise, abstraction of all native view components on both iOS and Android.

We won't be covering all the benefits and types of components you have access to here; but to learn more, we recommend any of the following...

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