You're reading from Getting Started with NativeScript Explore the possibility of building truly native, cross-platform mobile applications using your JavaScript skill—NativeScript!

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785888656

Length 168 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

NativeScript

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Nathanael J. Anderson

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to NativeScript

2. The Project Structure FREE CHAPTER

3. Declarative UI, Styling, and Events

4. Building a Featured Application

5. Installing Third-Party Components

6. Platform Differences

7. Testing and Deploying Your App

Index

Chapter 3. Declarative UI, Styling, and Events

Since we want to produce sleek and nice-looking applications, we are going to investigate the Declarative UI and its styling system in this chapter. In addition, we are going to explore several of the most frequently used common components and the event system. Finally, we'll wrap up the chapter by actually styling the main screen.

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

The Declarative UI
Using the Declarative UI for our Settings page
Binding and events
Styling the UI
Trying out and styling our application

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Chapter 3. Declarative UI, Styling, and Events

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