This Week in NativeScript—August 1st

It’s time for another This Week in NativeScript, your weekly collection of all things NativeScript from the NativeScript community. As always, if we missed your article, plugin, or link, let us know in the comments and we’ll get you on the list.

Links

• Cross-Platform Native Apps With A Single Code Set Using Telerik NativeScript
  Nic Raboy makes his Smashing Magazine debut discussing how NativeScript solves the problem of cross-platform native app development.
• AHHH! This NativeScript plugin doesn’t work
  Brad Martin gives some tips on how to get your NativeScript plugin working after adding native libraries.
• Fact Checking the Web… or just some Reddit thread about NativeScript
  In which Brad Martin joins Reddit, finds trolls, and writes an amazing rebuttal.
• Build Data Driven IOS & Android Apps With WordPress REST API & NativeScript – Part 2
  Part 2 of Chris Flannagan’s series on using the WordPress REST API in NativeScript apps.
• Add Two Color Linear Gradient Backgrounds To View Elements In NativeScript
  Chris Flannagan again, this time with a nice article on how to add linear gradient backgrounds to view elements.
• Control VLC player with NativeScript
  Marcel Kloubert with a really neat article on how to control the VLC media player in a NativeScript app.
• Get weather and use LINQ with NativeScript
  Marcel shows how to use the free OpenWeatherMap API, as well as LINQ extensions, to build a fun little NativeScript weather app.
• Changing the default template in NativeScript
  Alex Ziskind shows how to change your default template to the TypeScript one.
• How to build and run the latest NativeScript CLI version from GitHub
  Alex next shows how to build and run the latest CLI version from GitHub, in case you need to try out a feature a bit early, want to contribute, or want to live on the cutting edge.

Plugins

• nativescript-ng2-meteor
  A plugin by Ivan Greguric Ortolan that allows you to use Meteor inside a NativeScript application.
• NativeScript Ng2 Drawer Seed
  A Nativescript seed project that has Telerik UI for NativeScript drawer support integrated and ready to be used.
• nativescript-i18n
  The NativeScript internationalization plugin by Dan Tamas now supports Angular 2.

Stack Overflow Update

Brad Martin and Nick Iliev were really busy helping out and answering questions from community members this month. As NativeScript has grown, Stack Overflow has become increasingly active - for example, 20% of the questions asked all time came during the past 30 days.