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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

A prettier view with CSS

One of the many key benefits NativeScript brings to native app development is the ability to style native view components with standard CSS. You will find great support for many common and advanced properties; however, some don't have a direct correlation, whereas others are completely unique to native view layouts.

Let's take a look at how to turn our first view into something pretty amazing with a few CSS classes. You will also learn how to utilize NativeScript's core theme to provide a consistent styling framework to build on.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Using CSS to style views
  • Understanding some of the differences between typical web styling and native styling
  • Unlocking NativeScript powers with platform-specific files
  • Learning how to use the nativescript-theme-core styling...
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