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NativeScript for Angular Mobile Development
NativeScript for Angular Mobile Development

NativeScript for Angular Mobile Development: Creating dynamic mobile apps for iOS and Android

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NativeScript for Angular Mobile Development

Feature Modules

We are going to continue building the foundation of our app by scaffolding the core feature modules our app will need, the player and recorder. We will also want to keep in mind that the recording features will only be loaded and available when a user authenticates. Lastly, we will finish the implementation of our services from the CoreModule we created in Chapter 1Get Into Shape with @NgModule.

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

  • Creating feature modules
  • Separation of concerns with app features
  • Setting up the AppModule to bootstrap efficiently, only loading upfront the feature modules we need for our first view
  • Using the NativeScript application-settings module as our key/value store
  • Providing the ability to control our app's debug logs at one spot
  • Creating a new service that will use...

Player and recorder modules

Let's create the shell of our two main feature modules. Take note that we also add NativeScriptModule to the imports of both of the following modules:

  1. PlayerModule: It will provide player-specific services and components that will be usable whether the user is authenticated or not. 

Let's create app/modules/player/player.module.ts:

// nativescript
import { NativeScriptModule } from 'nativescript-angular/nativescript.module';
// angular
import { NgModule, NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA } from '@angular/core';

@NgModule({
imports: [ NativeScriptModule ]
schemas: [ NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA ]
})
export class PlayerModule { }
  1. RecorderModule: This will provide recording-specific services and components that will only be loaded if the user is authenticated and enters the record mode for the first time.

Let's create ...

Summary

Throughout, we have been working hard creating a solid foundation to build our app on. We created a CoreModule to provide some low-level services, such as logging, and a persistent store and designed the module to easily scale in more services as needed . Plus, this module is portable and can be dropped into other projects with your own company's special sauce intact.

In typical app development, you may want to run your app on the iOS and/or Android simulator along the way, during this process to double-check some of your design/architecture choices and that would be advisable! We just haven't done that yet, since we have an app pre-planned here and want you to stay focused on the choices we are making and why.

We also created the two primary feature modules that our app needs for its core competency, PlayerModule and RecorderModule....

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Key benefits

  • Power packed hands-on guide to help you become pro-efficient with NativeScript
  • Harness the power of your web development skills with JavaScript and Angular to build cross-platform mobile apps
  • Create highly maintainable and feature-rich apps with TypeScript and NativeScript APIs

Description

NativeScript is an open source framework that is built by Progress in order to build truly native mobile apps with TypeScript, JavaScript or just Angular which is an open source framework built by Google that offers declarative templates, dependency injection, and fully featured modules to build rich applications. Angular’s versatile view handling architecture allows your views to be rendered as highly performant UI components native to iOS and Android mobile platforms. This decoupling of the view rendering layer in Angular combined with the power of native APIs with NativeScript have together created the powerful and exciting technology stack of NativeScript for Angular. This book focuses on the key concepts that you will need to know to build a NativeScript for Angular mobile app for iOS and Android. We’ll build a fun multitrack recording studio app, touching on powerful key concepts from both technologies that you may need to know when you start building an app of your own. The structure of the book takes the reader from a void to a deployed app on both the App Store and Google Play, serving as a reference guide and valuable tips/tricks handbook. By the end of this book, you’ll know majority of key concepts needed to build a successful NativeScript for Angular app.

Who is this book for?

This book assumes you have a general understanding of TypeScript, have heard of NativeScript and know what it's about, and are familiar with Angular (2.0). You don't need to be an expert in any of these technologies, but having some sense of them before reading is recommended this book, which is ideal for intermediate to advanced users.

What you will learn

  • -Bootstrap a NativeScript for Angular app
  • - Best practices for project organization
  • - Style your app with CSS/SASS
  • - Use Angular together with NativeScript to create cross-platform mobile
  • apps
  • - Take advantage of powerful Angular features, such as Dependency Injection,
  • Components, Directives, Pipes, and NgModules right within your NativeScript
  • apps
  • - Gain insight into great project organization and best practices
  • - Use Objective C/Swift and Java APIs directly from TypeScript
  • - Use rich framework features and third-party plugins
  • - Style your app with CSS/SASS
  • - Integrate @ngrx/store + @ngrx/effects to help with state management
  • - Test your app with Karma and Appium

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Table of Contents

16 Chapters
Get Into Shape with @NgModule Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Feature Modules Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Our First View via Component Building Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A prettier view with CSS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Routing and Lazy Loading Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Running the App on iOS and Android Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building the Multitrack Player Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building an Audio Recorder Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Empowering Your Views Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
@ngrx/store + @ngrx/effects for State Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Polish with SASS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Unit Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Integration Testing with Appium Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Deployment Preparation with webpack Bundling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Deploying to the Apple App Store Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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The book ensures that you start thinking about organizing your app in a very modularized fashion. I'd honestly have preferred if it started with defining component a basic component layout and then iterating over it by adding the extra modules, services, etc instead of the other way around, but it's alright. If you don't know any Angular or Typescript, do yourself a favor and go learn that stuff before coming to this book as it assumes you have a working knowledge of those technologies.
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This book is great, if you have knowledge of Angular then all things will be easier to do :-) enjoin it !
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Maybe I don't know enough about Angular but this book was VERY COMPLICATED to follow. There are pages and pages of code pieces that create different components of a well structured application, but I didn't think there was enough time spent explaining the samples. I downloaded the code from the publishers site thinking that it would help but it would not run. This book seems very new so I hope that it gets better over time. It could be very useful but it didn't work for me right now :(
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