NativeScript Capacitor

Migrating from v2 to v4

@nativescript/capacitor follows Capacitor major version releases now.

For existing v2 users, you can update by:

  1. Update package.json:
"@nativescript/capacitor": "^4.0.0"
  1. Update AppDelegate.swift:

From this:

self.nativescript?.runMainScript()

to this:

self.nativescript?.runMainApplication()
  1. Update ios/App/Podfile to reference the latest ~8.3.3 Pod and adjust the post_install setup:
require_relative '../../node_modules/@nativescript/capacitor/ios/nativescript.rb'
require_relative '../../node_modules/@capacitor/ios/scripts/pods_helpers'

platform :ios, '13.0'
use_frameworks!

# workaround to avoid Xcode caching of Pods that requires
# Product -> Clean Build Folder after new Cordova plugins installed
# Requires CocoaPods 1.6 or newer
install! 'cocoapods', :disable_input_output_paths => true

def capacitor_pods
  pod 'Capacitor', :path => '../../node_modules/@capacitor/ios'
  pod 'CapacitorCordova', :path => '../../node_modules/@capacitor/ios'
  pod 'CapacitorApp', :path => '../../node_modules/@capacitor/app'
  pod 'CapacitorHaptics', :path => '../../node_modules/@capacitor/haptics'
  pod 'CapacitorKeyboard', :path => '../../node_modules/@capacitor/keyboard'
  pod 'CapacitorStatusBar', :path => '../../node_modules/@capacitor/status-bar'
  pod 'NativescriptCapacitor', :path => '../../node_modules/@nativescript/capacitor'
end

target 'App' do
  capacitor_pods
  # Add your Pods here

 pod 'NativeScript', '~> 8.3.3' 
 pod 'NativeScriptUI'
end

post_install do |installer|
  assertDeploymentTarget(installer)

  nativescript_capacitor_post_install(installer)
end
  1. Ensure latest pod specs are refreshed locally

You can run pod repo update to ensure the latest references are available on your system.

  1. Clean project dependencies and ensure lock (if using) is updated to reflect latest @nativescript/capacitor 4.0.0 is installed.

  2. Ensure native projects are cleaned before running with updates.