Progress Releases New Components for Ground Breaking NativeScript Mobile Development Toolset
November 21 2017 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
Progress introduces NativeScript Sidekick,
NativeScript Marketplace, augmented reality support and free
NativeScript UI widgets to help developers deliver high-quality
apps faster than ever before
Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS), the leading provider of application
development and deployment technologies, today announced new
tooling and capabilities for the NativeScript® open source
framework that enable easier, faster, native cross-platform mobile
development. Today’s announcement includes the release of
NativeScript® Sidekick, a powerful companion to NativeScript that
makes it faster and easier to create high-impact mobile business
applications through the availability of starter templates,
verified plugins, cloud builds and debugging capabilities. It also
includes the release of augmented reality support for iOS 11 and
Android Oreo, the NativeScript Marketplace and verified plugins,
the release of free NativeScript UI widgets, and more.
Developers are often constrained by traditional mobile
development approaches, a lack of skillsets to develop high-quality
apps for every type of mobile platform, and resulting slow
time-to-market for apps. In this highly dynamic environment, a
company that quickly delivers mobile apps with all features across
various device platforms has significant competitive advantage. The
speed of delivery and engaging UI are the foremost factors to
determine how successful the app will be.
Developed and supported by Progress, NativeScript is a powerful
and agile open-source framework for creating cross-platform, truly
native apps with Angular, TypeScript or JavaScript. Designed to
provide significant code reuse, it dramatically reduces development
efforts by allowing developers to leverage their existing skills.
With its adoption growing rapidly, NativeScript has enabled
organizations and developers across industries to easily build
high-impact native mobile user interfaces across platforms.
The newly introduced NativeScript Sidekick is a lightweight but
powerful GUI client that is available for Windows, macOS, and
Linux. It enhances the power of the NativeScript Command-Line
Interface (CLI) and simplifies the entire process of developing a
mobile app, resulting in faster time to market. NativeScript
Sidekick is designed to be an unobtrusive companion that
complements a developer’s favorite code editor, IDE, source control
system or other tools. Offering iOS provisioning
profile/certificate generation, improved LiveSync, and a preview of
Visual Studio support, NativeScript Sidekick speeds
development efforts, enables higher quality apps, and maximizes
existing resources.
In addition to NativeScript Sidekick, Progress has also
released:
- Augmented Reality Support
Preview – With NativeScript, it is possible to begin building
apps for iOS and Android leveraging the latest augmented reality
(AR) APIs in iOS 11 and Android Oreo. Over the coming months, the
NativeScript framework will be the first to offer a true,
cross-platform plugin for creating AR experiences that work on both
iOS and Android.
- NativeScript Marketplace and
Verified Plugins – The new NativeScript Marketplace has been
created for discovering and downloading high-quality plugins for
mission-critical NativeScript applications. In addition, it offers
a new “verification” process for authors to help make their plugins
stand out. Over time, the Marketplace will expand to include app
templates, page templates and complete visual themes.
- NativeScript Playground – A new,
browser-based sandbox enables developers to experiment with the
NativeScript framework to build native mobile apps for iOS and
Android, enabling them to get started quickly with NativeScript,
without barriers or time-consuming installs.
- NativeScript UI is 100% Free –
Progress has released for free, all proprietary NativeScript UI
widgets, giving developers access to all of the NativeScript
professional user interface components for personal and business
applications.
- “The NativeScript Book” is Free
– Through a partnership with the NativeScript community and
offering more than 450 pages of in-depth training material, “The
NativeScript Book” is available for free at
nativescript.org/book,
“As the popularity of NativeScript has skyrocketed, with more
than one million downloads this year alone, we’ve seen it evolve
into something more than just an open source framework. Developers
are embracing it as their choice for cross-platform mobile app
development,” said Todd Anglin, VP Product, Progress. “The
introduction of new tools such as NativeScript Sidekick
demonstrates our ability to keep in lockstep with market needs and
with the latest advancements in JavaScript development.
giving developers everything they need to build the mobile apps of
tomorrow from a single codebase, using their existing web
development skills.”
Additional Resources
- Follow Progress on Twitter, Facebook,
LinkedIn and Google+
- Follow NativeScript on Twitter
- Read the Progress blog
About ProgressProgress (NASDAQ: PRGS) offers the
leading platform for developing and deploying mission-critical
business applications. Progress empowers enterprises and ISVs to
build and deliver cognitive-first applications, that harness big
data to derive business insights and competitive advantage.
Progress offers leading technologies for easily building powerful
user interfaces across any type of device, a reliable, scalable and
secure backend platform to deploy modern applications, leading data
connectivity to all sources, and award-winning predictive analytics
that brings the power of machine learning to any organization. Over
1,700 independent software vendors, 100,000 enterprise customers,
and two million developers rely on Progress to power their
applications. Learn about Progress at www.progress.com or
+1-800-477-6473.
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subsidiaries or affiliates in the US and other countries. Any other
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