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Ionic Framework
A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. -
androme
DISCONTINUED. Converts and optimizes HTML pages with JavaScript into the various standard Android layouts in XML. iOS will be supported through Flutter integration. Compatible with Chrome and Safari. -
PhoneGap
Open source framework by Adobe to create cross platform mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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README
NativeScript empowers you to access native APIs from JavaScript directly. Currently iOS and Android runtimes are provided for rich mobile development across a variety of diverse use cases.
Contribute
Clone to contribute:
$ git clone https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript.git
$ cd NativeScript
# setup workspace for development
$ npm run setup
# list all available commands to run
$ npm start
We love you and your pull requests 🤗. Please follow our contributing guide and see our code of governance to become as involved as you want to be.
@nativescript/*
- @nativescript/core
- Core iOS/Android for NativeScript
- @nativescript/types
- Types for both iOS/Android below wrapped up as a convenience. Most commonly used.
- @nativescript/types-ios
- Types for iOS
- @nativescript/types-android
- Types for Android
- @nativescript/types-minimal
- A very minimal set of types for only the latest Android and iOS sdks. Most commonly used to optimize Web-based IDE's which auto load all type declarations from node_modules.
- @nativescript/ui-mobile-base
- UI mobile base native classes used by core
- @nativescript/webpack
- Webpack build utilities and configs used by NativeScript apps
Quick Links
- NativeScript Home
- NativeScript Tutorials
- NativeScript documentation
- JavaScript starter: https://nativescript.new/javascript
- TypeScript starter: https://nativescript.new/typescript
- Angular starter: https://nativescript.new/angular
- Vue starter: https://nativescript.new/vue
- Svelte starter: https://nativescript.new/svelte
- React starter: https://nativescript.new/react
- NativeScript on Twitter
- NativeScript on Discord
- NativeScript on Stack Overflow
Other source repos
Outside the source centralized in this repo, NativeScript consists of a few other source repos. Here are the major ones:
- iOS Runtime
- This repo contains the NativeScript iOS Runtime — the code that hosts NativeScript iOS apps, and allows JavaScript code to be executed on iOS devices. The iOS runtime is written in a mix of C++, Objective-C, and more.
- Android Runtime
- This repo contains the NativeScript Android Runtime — the code that hosts NativeScript Android apps, and allows JavaScript code to be executed on Android devices. The Android runtime is written in a mix of C++ and Java.
- [CLI](//github.com/NativeScript/nativescript-cli)
- This repo contains the NativeScript command-line interface, which lets you create, build, and run apps using NativeScript. The CLI is written in TypeScript.
- [Docs](//github.com/NativeScript/docs-new)
- This repo contains NativeScript documentation, which is available at http://docs.nativescript.org/. The docs are written in Markdown.
- **Official Plugins
- This repo contains a plugin workspace the TSC (Technical Steering Committee) maintains offering several often useful plugins.
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