The NativeScript core team works with the Angular team at Google to ensure NativeScript and Angular are seamlessly integrated. If you know Angular, you’re already ready to develop amazing native mobile apps with NativeScript. With NativeScript and Angular, a single code base (and skillset) can be used to create web apps and native mobile apps with 100% native performance and power. Buttery smooth animations, direct access to 100% of the native platform APIs, it’s pretty amazing.

A few important things to note in the above commands. First, you’ll notice we are using the –ng tag. This is to use the Angular template for NativeScript. Second, you won’t be able to add and build for the iOS platform unless you’re using a Mac computer. Lastly, being that this is an Angular project, we will be using TypeScript rather than vanilla JavaScript.

Before we start coding, there are a few directories and files that we need to create. These files and directories will represent different screens in our application. Create the following in the AngularProject directory: