This year was the year that I started two different podcasts, one titled The Polyglot Developer Podcast and the other being The NoSQL Database Podcast. I’ve been getting a few questions regarding this, but people are asking where I’m hosting the episodes. This is a great question! I’m actually hosti...

When developing mobile apps, at some point in time you may find yourself needing to show a background notification to your users. There are two types of notifications, one being the push notification which is sent from a remote server and the other being local notifications that are triggered from w...

I get this question a lot, not necessarily for NativeScript, but for other mobile frameworks. The question is, how do you send emails from within your Android and iOS application without launching one of the already installed mail apps? In other words how do you send emails via a custom form within ...

I’ve been writing developer related content for a few years now, most of which I distribute for free. Sure I have some donation requests around this blog, but I never demand any and I try not to force it on you. I enjoy helping the developer community, and more, I enjoy creating a healthy developer ...

Not too long ago I wrote a tutorial regarding saving data in a NativeScript mobile application using the application settings module that closely resembled that of HTML5 local storage. If you’re not familiar with the application settings module, it is persisted storage using key value pairs. What if...

Unit testing! It’s something that we as developers all understand the importance of and implement in every project, right? cough Anyway… did you know NativeScript supports unit testing out of the box? It’s true! By unit testing your application, you can ensure that any changes you’ve made to your co...

There are a lot of “first” approaches circulating in the development and design space at the moment, but what does all this jargon mean? In this episode of the Polyglot Developer Podcast, guest speaker William Hoang and I are going to explore some of the common practices such as mobile first, offlin...

You might not know this, but I run another blog on a completely different subject material than The Polyglot Developer. This other blog is called Own the Web and it focuses on brand building, searching engine optimization, and boosting your online revenue through the internet. Unlike The Polyglot De...

I am pleased to announce that I created my first ever Hugo Static Website Engine theme called Phlat. This is not only my first Hugo theme, but the first theme I’ve ever created. Before talking about the theme itself I want to give a quick background on Hugo since this is the first time I’ve mentione...

Recently I found myself needing to copy data from one Couchbase Server cluster to another. More specifically I needed to copy production data to my local instance so I could play around with it. This could be accomplished by backing up and restoring remote data in my local instance. The problem is t...

So you’re getting some fancy new features into your NativeScript Android and iOS application. A feature I always find to be useful is having a barcode scanner within my app. Barcodes are a convenient way to pass around information without having to type it in. With NativeScript we can easily add sca...

So you just made a fancy new NativeScript Android and iOS application and you’re looking to earn a little cash. There are many solutions out there, for example you could include InAppBilling or list your application as a paid application. You can also include advertisements in your application using...

Have you ever wanted to copy something from your application to the native device clipboard? Maybe you want to copy contact information from a list of elements so you can paste it elsewhere. I recently wrote a post regarding social media sharing with Telerik NativeScript that will let you share to t...

Every app lately has some social media aspect to it. Most commonly, apps will allow you to share some kind of data, whether it be an image or text, to social media networks such as Facebook or Twitter. Sharing via email or SMS message still is classified as social sharing. When building NativeScript...

Being able to authenticate within a mobile application using your fingerprint offers a certain convenience that is of huge benefit in modern applications. Using the iOS touch id, doors can be opened in the land of application security and since Telerik NativeScript can interface with native APIs and...

Creating your own in-app icons can be a real pain. Having to worry about all the different Android and iOS icon sizes is not a pleasant task, specially when web developers have it easy with icon packs like Font Awesome. Lucky for us, Ionic is a mobile web application, so we can enjoy the same benefi...

A few days ago I announced via my email newsletter that my blog, Nic Raboy’s Code Blog, found at blog.nraboy.com was going to be rebranded to The Polyglot Developer, found at www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com. I am pleased to announce that this transition has already taken place and this blog is now know...

In this episode of The Polyglot Developer Podcast I sit down with two of my good friends, Raymond Camden and Simon Reimler, and discuss developer tools and strategies for being successful. Episode #3: Developer Tools that can Make You More Productive Towards Your Next Release covers a lot of ground ...

So you want to take advantage of your iOS devices touch id functionality? I don’t blame you because I find my iPad Air 2’s fingerprint reader incredibly useful. Previously I wrote about using touch id for authentication with Ionic Framework 1, but with Ionic 2 being all the rage now, I figured we we...

If you’re making a great app chances are you’re going to want to know who else thinks its great. This an be determined by how many people are using your application, what they are doing within the application, or how long they are using your application for. This data can be tracked in iOS and Andro...

Being able to scan a barcode is a convenient way to share bits of data. Whether you’re using QR codes to share contact information or traditional barcodes for product information, being able to scan an image is more convenient than either entering a long code or similar. Previously I wrote about sca...

Today I have finished the final episode of a five-part webinar series on the subject of Couchbase, Express Framework, Angular, and Node.js (CEA2N) application development. This webinar series has been going on for the past five weeks where each week I covered a new topic relative to the stack leadin...

Not too long ago I wrote about uploading files to a Node.js server that was making use of the Multer middleware. In that scenario the files were saved to the file system and even though I didn’t demonstrate it, in theory the file metadata would be stored in a database. What if you wanted to store th...

Recently one of my subscribers asked me if I could refresh the social media sharing article that I wrote for Ionic Framework 1 to work with Ionic 2. Since I’m already in the process of rewriting all my posts to Ionic 2, I figured now is a good time to do so. In case you hadn’t seen my previous post,...

I’ve written a lot of Ionic Framework and Ionic 2 blog articles and have answered even more questions and troubleshooted more problems. When it comes to Ionic Framework, if I had to estimate, I’d say about 80% of the time the problems were related to the Ionic Service solution that the Ionic team of...

A few years back I demonstrated how to use the device camera in an Android and iOS application developed with Ionic Framework. Being able to take photos wasn’t particularly difficult, but it left a lot to be desired. This is where the Media component by Onymos comes into play. So what is the Onymos ...

Not too long ago I wrote about using the NativeScript fetch module for making HTTP requests in an Android and iOS mobile application. Personally I find that the fetch module is a bit awkward to use, so this time we’re going to take a look at using the http module instead. The great thing about the N...

As you may know, I recently started two different podcasts. Let’s not confuse these with podcast episodes as I’m talking about shows. I started The Polyglot Developer Podcast and The NoSQL Database Podcast. Creating a podcast has been something I’ve been thinking about for a long time and it turns o...

So you made a shiny new app and want to earn some money from it. The paid revenue model may not be the best fit for you, so instead you might want to consider ads. The more popular Google Admob solution makes advertising incredibly simple and best of all it can be used within an Ionic 2 Android and ...

Ubuntu Linux is one heck of an operating system. It is fast, visually appealing, and it is great for development. Previously I wrote about how to install Ionic Framework and all the required dependencies for development in Ubuntu, but this time we’re going to look at how to do the same for Telerik N...