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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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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Summary

In this chapter, we were finally able to add some nice polishing touches to the app's look and feel. We were able to install the nativescript-dev-sass plugin, which adds a compilation step to build our CSS while maintaining a clean approach to styling. Knowing how best to take advantage of the core theme's SASS with proper file organization is key to gaining a flexible base to work with. Take the concepts presented in this chapter and let us know how they helped you achieve the styling goals you are after; we would love to hear about it!

We also took a look at how to work with the nativescript-ngx-fonticon plugin to utilize font icons throughout our app. This helped clean up clunky textual labels with concise iconic visuals.

In the next chapter, we will take a look at how to unit test several key features to future proof our app's codebase against new feature...

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