NativeScript, Progress Software’s framework for building native mobile apps with JavaScript, will be tweaked for performance and debugging with an upcoming upgrade. Further integration with the Angular 2 JavaScript framework is in the works as well.
NativeScript 2.5, due in January, will feature ahead-of-time compilation to improve boot-up time on Android devices, said Todd Anglin, chief evangelist at Progress. The upgrade also will be fully integrated with Chrome developer tools for debugging and working with NativeScript apps. Such capabilities as step debugging, in which developers walk through code one line at a time, and UI tree inspection will be available.
