Nathan Walker - Mastering NativeScript Mobile Development

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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First published: August 2017

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JavaScript developers faced a steep uphill battle if they wanted to write a mobile app. Not only did they have to learn completely new programming languages, they also had to deal with radically different development environments, as well as a dizzying set of testing and deployment procedures.
Today , NativeScript lets JavaScript developers write mobile apps from a single codebase using the language they already know and love--namely, JavaScript! By allowing you to use familiar frontend technologies, NativeScript drastically reduces the amount of time it takes you to write powerful and compelling iOS and Android applications.
However, it doesnt stop with the JavaScript language. NativeScript also lets you write apps with the Angular framework, allowing you to code with a frontend framework on platforms that used to make you learn Swift, Java, and Objective-C.
In this book, youll learn how it all works from two of the NativeScript communitys most talented developers.
Nathan Walkers list of contributions to the NativeScript world is too long for this foreword. Just to give you a taste though, Nathan Walker led the effort to create the NativeScript frameworks first theme. Nathan also maintains the most popular project to share code between Angular web and native apps. However, in my personal opinion, Nathans biggest contribution to NativeScript has been the tireless help hes offered to countless developers throughout the NativeScript community.
Nathan might only be outdone by Nathanael, who was one of NativeScripts first users and has been a regular in NativeScripts community chat and forums since day one. Nathanael Anderson understands NativeScripts inner workings better than most (all?) of the NativeScript team. He regularly contributes to all facets of the NativeScript framework, and he routinely shares his knowledge with the greater NativeScript world through his blog.

The two authors have the sort of real-world experience that you will need to cover these sort of topics in detail. Nathan can speak knowledgeably about the NativeScript core theme because he basically wrote the thing. Nathanael can talk about NativeScript unit testing approaches because he literally wrote the book on the topic.
I cant think of two better people to learn NativeScript and Angular from--youre in for a treat.
TJ VanToll
Principal Developer Advocate, Progress

Nathan Walker has enjoyed the opportunity to work in the web/mobile app development arena for more than 15 years. He cofounded nStudio LLC, a professional software development services and consulting company specializing in Angular and NativeScript integrations, while also working with Tryon Creek Software based out of Portland, OR. His varied background rooted in the world of design and arts provides him with a unique approach to problem solving. Spending several years working across multiple industries, including entertainment, audio/video production, manufacturing, b2b marketing, communications, and technology, helped establish an attitude that is focused on client needs.

Nathanael J. Anderson has been developing software for more than 20 years in a wide range of industries, including games, time management, imaging, service, printing, accounting, land management, security, web and even, believe it or not, some actually successful government projects. He is currently the owner of Master Technology and cofounder of nStudio, LLC, and can create a solution for any type of application (native, web, mobile, and hybrid) running on any operating system. As a senior development engineer, he can work, tune, and secure everything from your backend servers to the final destination of the data on your desktop or mobile devices. By having a great understanding of the entire infrastructure, including the real or virtualized hardware, he can totally eliminate many different types of issue between all parts of the framework. He currently runs the entire NativeScript.rocks family of sites, has multiple highly rated cross-platform plugins for NativeScript, and works heavily for the NativeScript community.