Awesome NativeScript

A curated list of awesome plugins, and resources for NativeScript 8 or Newer.

Empower JavaScript with native APIs. NativeScript provides direct access to platform APIs with strong typing, enabling a powerful TypeScript development experience. Build native apps for iOS, macOS, visionOS, Android, and Meta Quest—entirely in JavaScript.

Official Resources
Flavors
- Official Flavors
- Community Flavors
Platforms
Community
Templates
Layouts
Navigations
Components
Plugins
- Advertising Plugins
- Analytics, Engagement & Monitoring Plugins
- Artifical Intelligence (AI) Plugins
- Authentication Plugins
- Backend Service Plugins
- Client-side Database Plugins
- Firebase Plugins
- Geo Plugins
- Graphics Plugins
- ML Plugins
- Multimedia Plugins
- Networking Plugins
- Payment Plugins
- Styling & Theme Plugins
- UI Kit Plugins
- UI Material Plugins
- UI Plugins
- Utility Plugins
More Plugins
Font & Font Icon
Security
Testing
- Unit Testing
- End-to-end Integration Testing
Background Service
macOS
visionOS (Vision Pro)
Videos & Podcasts
Examples & Tutorials
- Interactive Examples
- AI & Machine Learning
- Platform-Specific
Misc
Tools

Official Resources

Flavors

NativeScript offers various flavors you can try, which are generally divided into two types: the official version and the community-developed version.

Official Flavors

JavaScript - Official JavaScript flavor with plain JS and no build step.
TypeScript - Official TypeScript flavor with native class support.

Community Flavors

Angular - Popular flavor using Angular framework.
Vue - Build apps using Vue.js and NativeScript runtime.
- Portal - Community site for NativeScript-Vue.
SolidJS - Community-driven integration with SolidJS.
ReactJS - Use React to build native mobile apps.
- Portal - Documentation site for React + NativeScript.
Svelte - Use Svelte to compile native apps with NativeScript.
- Portal - Official portal for NativeScript-Svelte.
CapacitorJS - Integration of CapacitorJS with NativeScript runtime.
- Portal - Website for NativeScript-Capacitor integration.
Ionic - Use Ionic Portals inside NativeScript apps.

Platforms

Run NativeScript on the following platforms:

Community

Templates

Blank Template - A basic template with a single page and no custom styles.
Drawer Template - A template with a side drawer.
Tabs Template - A template with multiple tabs.
List & Details Template - A template with a ListView and a details screen.

Layouts

StackLayout - A layout container that arranges child views in a horizontal or vertical stack.
GridLayout - A layout container that lets you arrange its child elements in a table-like manner.
RootLayout - Layout container for dynamically layering views with a programmatic API.
FlexboxLayout - A layout container that implements (close-to-spec) CSS Flexbox.
WrapLayout - Layout Container that wraps it’s items once there’s no more space to fit them.
DockLayout - Layout container for docking views to the sides or the middle.
AbsoluteLayout - A simple layout container for positioning elements at top/left coordinates.
Yoga Layout - Facebook’s yoga layout engine, ported to NativeScript.
Yoga Layout by Triniwiz - Facebook’s yoga layout engine, ported to NativeScript by Triniwiz.
Universal layout views (via Taffy) - Taffy is a flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library written in Rust.

Navigations

Frame - UI component for displaying and navigating between Pages.
Page - UI component for representing application screens the users can navigate to.
ActionBar - UI component abstracting the Android ActionBar, and the iOS NavigationBar.

Components

ActivityIndicator - UI component for signaling activity.
Button - A basic native button that reacts to user gestures.
DatePicker - UI component for selecting a date.
Dialogs - UI for grabbing the users attention, prompting for confirmation, choice, input, or credentials.
HtmlView - UI component for rendering simple HTML content.
Image - UI component for rendering images.
Label - UI component for displaying text.
ListPicker - UI component for selecting a value from a list.
ListView - UI component for rendering large lists using view recycling.
Placeholder - Helper UI component for rendering native views.
Progress - UI component to indicate the progress of a task.
ScrollView - UI component for rendering scrollable content (horizontal or vertical).
SearchBar - UI component for entering search queries.
SegmentedBar - UI component for discrete slection.
Slider - UI component for picking numeric values from a range.
Switch - UI component for toggling state on or off.
TabView - UI component for grouping content into tabs and let users switch between them.
TextField - UI component for single-line text entry.
TextView - UI component for multi-line text entry.
TimePicker - UI component that lets users select time.
WebView - UI component for rendering web content.

Plugins

Advertising Plugins

Google Mobile Ads - A plugin that allows you to monetize your NativeScript app by integrating the Google Mobile Ads SDK into the app.

Analytics, Engagement & Monitoring Plugins

Adobe Experience Cloud - A NativeScript plugin for Adobe Experience Cloud.
AppsFlyer - A NativeScript plugin for AppsFlyer mobile attribution and analytics. Track installs, measure user behavior, and optimize marketing performance.
IAdvize - A NativeScript plugin that integrates the iAdvize SDK, enabling live chat and real-time customer engagement features within NativeScript applications.
Medallia - A NativeScript plugin integrating the Medallia SDK to gather insights and improve customer, employee, and digital experiences.
Sentry - A cross-platform application monitoring tool, with a focus on error reporting.
UXCam - A NativeScript plugin for UXCam. An analytics platform that offers in-depth dashboards, heatmaps, and session recordings to optimize your product.

Artifical Intelligence (AI) Plugins

NativeScript AI SDK - Community Plugin for integrating AI models in a NativeScript App.

Authentication Plugins

Apple Sign In - A plugin that allows you to authenticate users with Sign In with Apple.
Descope - The Descope SDK for NativeScript provides convenient access to Descope for an application written on top of NativeScript.
Facebook - A plugin that allows you to integrate Facebook Login with your app using the Facebook SDK.
Google Signin - A plugin that allows you to authenticate users with Google Sign-In.
Twitter - A plugin that allows you to authenticate a user with their Twitter account.

Backend Service Plugins

Appwrite - Is an open-source backend as a service server that abstract and simplify complex and repetitive development tasks behind a very simple to use REST API.
AWS - It simplifies the process of integrating AWS services by providing language-specific APIs, making it easier for developers to build and deploy applications that leverage AWS resources.
Firebase - Modular Firebase 🔥 implementation for NativeScript. Supports both iOS & Android platforms for all Firebase services.
Supabase - Supabase for NativeScript: Start your project with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, Realtime subscriptions, Storage, and Vector embeddings.

Client-side Database Plugins

Couchbase - Is an embedded, NoSQL JSON Document Style database for your mobile apps.
RxDB - Are a set of plugins that enable RxDB support for NativeScript. This set of plugins includes a core plugin and adapters for different databases.
SQLite - A SQLite plugin for NativeScript.
SQLite Secure - This a library for nativescript, compatible whit Android and iOS that provides transparent 256-bit AES encryption for SQLite database files. It ensures that data stored in the database is secure and protected from unauthorized access.

Firebase Plugins

Batch Notifications - Batch is a full-featured mobile engagement platform for executing CRM tactics on iOS, Android, and mobile websites. This plugin enables push notifications, in-app messages, and more. Requires @nativescript/firebase for push notification support.
Firebase Analytics - This plugin allows you to add Google Analytics for Firebase to your app.
Firebase App Check - App Check works alongside other Firebase services to help protect your backend resources from abuse, such as billing fraud or phishing.
Firebase Auth - A plugin that allows you to add Firebase Authentification to your NativeScript app.
Firebase Core - A plugin to initialize FirebaseApp in your app.
Firebase Crashlytics - A plugin that allows you to add Firebase Crashlytics to your NativeScript app.
Firebase Database - A plugin that allows you to add Firebase Realtime Databse to your NativeScript app.
Firebase Dynamic Links - This plugin allows you to add the Firebase Dynamic Links SDK to your app, create dynamic links and receive links that launch a screen on your app.
Firebase Firestore - This plugin allows you to add Firebase Cloud Firestore to your NativeScript app.
Firebase Functions - This plugin allows you to use Firebase Cloud Functions with NativeScript.
Firebase In App Messaging - This plugin allows you to use the Firebase In-App Messaging SDK in your NativeScript app.
Firebase Installations - Provides a Firebase installation ID (FID) for each installed instance of a Firebase app.
Firebase Messaging - This plugin allows you to use Firebase Cloud Messaging in your NativeScript app.
Firebase Messaging Core - Firebase Messaging Core is a lite package which enables you to use a third-party push service on Android and iOS.
Firebase Messaging Custom Sound - Custom notification sound of firebase cloud messaging (FCM). Currently only working on Android.
Firebase Performance - This plugin allows you to use the Firebase Performance Monitoring API in your NativeScript app.
Firebase Remote Config - This plugin allows you to use the Firebase Remote Config API in your NativeScript app.
Firebase Storage - This plugin allows you to use the native Firebase SDKs for Cloud Storage in your Nativescript app.
Firebase UI - With this plugin, you can use the FirebaseUI for Auth library in your NativeScript app. FirebaseUI for Auth is a library that provides a drop-in auth solution that handles the UI flows for signing up and signing in users with email and password, phone number, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and more.

Geo Plugins

Carto - One Location Intelligence platform for all your spatial needs. Streamline your tech stack with an end-to-end geospatial platform built for the enterprise.
Directions - A plugin that allows you to launch the Google Maps app, if it’s installed on the device, with some directions. For more information, visit Directions action.
Geo Coding - Provides access to native geocoding APIs for NativeScript apps (android.location.Geocoder for Android, CLGeocoder for iOS).
Geo Location - A geolocation plugin to use for getting current location, monitor movement, etc.
Geofence Manager - A NativeScript plugin to work with Geofences.
Google Maps - A plugin that allows you to use the Maps SDK to access Google Maps features.
Google Maps Utils - You can access the google maps utilities from the GoogleMaps object. Requires google maps plugin @nativescript/google-maps.
Launch Navigator - Easily launch turn-by-turn navigation from your NativeScript app using popular mapping apps like Google Maps, Waze, Apple Maps, and more.
Radar.io - Geofencing, maps, and geolocation compliance, all in a modern, cost-effective platform. Thousands of companies trust our APIs and SDKs to power location-based experiences across hundreds of millions of devices globally.
UI Mapbox - Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps powered by vector tiles and OpenGL. Awesome native OpenGL-powered maps - by Mapbox.

Graphics Plugins

Canvas - A NativeScript plugin that brings the HTML5 Canvas API to native mobile apps, enabling 2D drawing and animation with high-performance rendering on iOS and Android.
Canvas Phaser - A NativeScript integration for the Phaser game engine using native canvas rendering, enabling high-performance mobile game development with web-like APIs.
Canvas Phaser CE - A NativeScript integration for Phaser CE (Community Edition) using native canvas rendering to build cross-platform mobile games.
Canvas Pixi - A NativeScript integration for PixiJS using native canvas rendering, enabling advanced 2D graphics and animation in mobile apps.
Canvas Polyfill - DOM-like polyfill for NativeScript canvas, enabling compatibility with standard HTML5 canvas APIs and web libraries.
Canvas Three - Use Three.js for 3D rendering inside NativeScript apps via native canvas integration.
TroisJS - Use TroisJS for 3D rendering inside NativeScript apps via native canvas integration. Only for NativeScript-Vue.

ML Plugins

Barcode Scanning - This plugin is used with @nativescript/mlkit-core. It enables barcode scanning and provides the BarcodeResult type for the barcode-scanned data.
Core - A plugin that provides a UI component to access the different functionalities of Google’s ML Kit SDK.
Face Detection - A plugin that is used with @nativescript/mlkit-core to enable face detection and provide the FaceResult type for the data of the face detection event.
Image Labeling - A plugin that is used with @nativescript/mlkit-core to enable Image Labeling and provide the ImageLabelingResult type for the image labeling event data.
Object Detection - A plugin that is used with @nativescript/mlkit-core to enable Object Detection and provide the ObjectResult type for the object detection event data.
Pose Detection - A plugin that is used with @nativescript/mlkit-core to enable Pose Detection and provide the PoseResult type for the Pose Detection event data.
Text Recognition - A plugin used with @nativescript/mlkit-core to enable Text Recognition in your app and provide TextResult type for the text recognition event data.

Multimedia Plugins

Audio Player - This plugin provides an audio player for Android and iOS that supports playback of both local files and remote URL audio files.
Audio Recorder - This plugin provides an audio recorder for Android and iOS that supports recording of audio from a device microphone input and saved to an MP4/AAC audio file. It also provides a function to merge multiple audio recordings together.
Drawingpad - NativeScript plugin to provide a way to capture any drawing (signatures are a common use case) from the device.
Trans Coder - This plugin provides a few audio or video transcoding functions for Android API 21+ and iOS 4+.
Video Editor - A plugin for editing video.
Video Player - A NativeScript plugin to provide the ability to play local and remote videos.
Video Recorder - Video recording plugin for NativeScript.
YouTube Player - Video Player only for YouTube.

Networking Plugins

Klippa Nativescript Http - The best way to do HTTP requests in NativeScript, a drop-in replacement for the core HTTP with important improvements and additions like proper connection pooling, form data support and certificate pinning.
Nativescript Community Https - Secure HTTP client with SSL pinning for Nativescript - iOS/Android.
Pusher Channels - Powering realtime experiences for mobile and web by pusher.com
Socketio - JavaScript Socket.IO client for real-time event-based communication (works with NativeScript).
websockets - For web-compatible WebSockets.

Payment Plugins

Apple Pay - A plugin that allows you to offer Apple Pay in your iOS apps.
Google Pay - A plugin that allows you to offer Google Pay in your Android app.
Payments - A plugin that allows your app to use in-app purchases and subscriptions using Apple AppStore and Google PlayStore purchasing systems.
Revenuecat - A powerful and reliable in-app purchase server that makes it easy to build, analyze, and grow your subscriber base whether you’re just starting out or already have millions of customers.
Square In App Payments - Build remarkable payments experiences in your own apps with Square’s In-App Payments SDK for NativeScript.
Stripe - Is a financial infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept and manage online payments, as well as handle recurring billing and other financial operations.

Styling & Theme Plugins

Change Icon - A NativeScript plugin that allows dynamic switching of the app icon at runtime on iOS using alternate icons.
Tailwindcss - Use Tailwind CSS utility classes in NativeScript.
Theme - Core themes for NativeScript apps.

UI Kit Plugins

Flutter - Use Flutter with NativeScript projects by creating a Flutter module in the root of your project.
Ionic Portals - A plugin that allows you to use Ionic Portals in NativeScript.
Jetpack Compose - A plugin that allows you to use Jetpack Compose in NativeScript.
Morph Modal Kit - Is a lightweight, flexible UIKit package for building card-stack modals with smooth morph (replace) animations and support for sticky elements.
Rive - Rive for NativeScript, allows setup and interaction with the native implementation of the Rive runtime on iOS and Android.
Smartlook - A NativeScript plugin for the Smartlook SDK. Comprehensive product analytics & visual user insights.
Swift UI - Use SwiftUI with NativeScript.
UI Charts - Highcharts SDK for NativeScript.

UI Material Plugins

Build beautiful, usable products using Material Design Components for NativeScript.

Activity Indicator - Material Design’s Circular progress indicator component for NativeScript.
Bottom Navigation - Material Design’s Bottom navigation component for NativeScript.
Bottom Sheet - Material Design’s Bottom sheet component for NativeScript.
Button - Material Design’s Button component for NativeScript.
Card - Material Design’s Card component for NativeScript.
Dialogs - Material Design’s Dialogs component for NativeScript.
Floating Action Button - Material Design’s Floating action button component for NativeScript.
Progress - Material Design’s Linear progress indicator component for NativeScript.
Ripple - Material Design’s Ripple component for NativeScript.
Slider - Material Design’s Slider component for NativeScript.
Snackbar - Material Design’s Snackbar component for NativeScript.
Speed Dial - Material Design’s Speed dial component for NativeScript.
Switch - Material Design’s Switch component for NativeScript.
Tabs - Material Design’s Tabs component for NativeScript.
Text Field - Material Design’s Text field component for NativeScript.
Text View - Material Design’s Text view component for NativeScript.

UI Plugins

Animation & Visual Effects

Parallax - A NativeScript plugin to create a parallax effect for any view.
Ripple - This plugin aims to bring a native (or close to native) ripple implementation on Android and iOS.
Shimmer - A NativeScript plugin to create a shimmer effect for any view.
Tween - A NativeScript plugin that natively wraps tween.js, a tweening engine for easy animations, incorporating optimized Robert Penner’s equations.

Feedback & Notifications

Feedback - Non-blocking textual feedback for your NativeScript App.
In App Review - A NativeScript plugin that triggers the native in-app review prompt, allowing users to rate your app without leaving it.
Toasty - A NativeScript plugin to make Toast.
Tooltip - A NativeScript plugin to make Tooltip.

Input & Selection Components

Color Wheel - A NativeScript plugin that allows you to use a color wheel to select colors.
Country Code - Plugin for NativeScript provides a full list of country codes along with flags.
Datetime Picker - A plugin that provides the UI elements DatePickerField, TimePickerField and DateTimePickerFields for picking a date and a time.
File Picker - This file picker plugin exports function filePicker() that supports both single and multiple selection.
Multi Select - Nativescript Multi Select is a popup dialog which provides multi selection, search through list and return the selected items.
OTP - A NativeScript plugin to auto fill the One Time Code OTP for IOS and Android.
Picker - A NativeScript plugin that provides a UI element for picking an object/value from a list opened in a modal popup.
Radio Dialog - A NativeScript plugin that provides radio button dialogs.
Star Ratings - A NativeScript plugin that provides a customizable star rating component for displaying and collecting user ratings in mobile apps.
Time Range - A NativeScript plugin for selecting a time range using a time picker.
UI Checkbox - A NativeScript plugin for checkbox UI component.
UI Document Picker - A NativeScript plugin that allows you to select files from the device.
UI Range Seek Bar - A NativeScript Range Seek Bar widget.

Layout & Container Components

Accordion - A NativeScript plugin for Accordion UI.
Nested Scrollview - A NativeScript plugin to make Nested Scroll View.
RTL UI Layout - Right-to-left UI Layout support for NativeScript.
UI Canvas - Implement Canvas into your NativeScript apps.
UI Collectionview - Allows you to easily add a collection view (grid list view) to your projects. Supports vertical and horizontal modes, templating, and more.
UI Drawer - A NativeScript plugin that allows you to easily add a side drawer (side menu) to your projects.
UI Pager - Pager / Carousel component that allows the user to swipe left and right through pages of data.
UI Persistent Bottomsheet - A NativeScript plugin that allows you to easily add a persistent bottomsheet to your projects.
UI Popover - A NativeScript plugin to make Popover.
UI Neumorphic Layout - A plugin that adds support for neumorphism styling to NativeScript layout containers.
Windowed Modal - Consistent modals for NativeScript in Android and iOS.

Media & Visual Components

Document Scanner - A NativeScript plugin to scan documents.
Gallery View - A NativeScript plugin for viewing gallery assets, currently supports only images.
Image Cache It - A NativeScript plugin that automatically caches images for faster loading and better performance.
SVG - A NativeScript plugin that allows you to use SVG images in your NativeScript apps.
UI Barcodeview - NativeScript QR / barcode view plugin.
UI Blurview - A image blurview plugin.
UI Cameraview - A CameraView allowing custom live processing for NativeScript.
UI Chart - A powerful chart / graph plugin, supporting line, bar, pie, radar, bubble, and candlestick charts as well as scaling, panning and animations.
UI Image - Advanced and efficient image display plugin which uses Fresco (Android) and SDWebImage (iOS) to implement caching, placeholders, image effects, and much more.
UI Lottie - A NativeScript plugin to expose AirBnB Lottie library.
UI Webview - Extended WebView which adds many options such as custom scheme handlers, JavaScript execution, URL capturing, and more.
URL Preview - This plugin allows you to configure various aspects of the UI, including colors, border radius, and the type of view. Below is a table listing the available attributes and their respective types.
Variable Blur View - A NativeScript plugin that creates a variable blur view.

App Tour - A NativeScript plugin that allows you to create an app tour for your users.
Coachmarks - A NativeScript plugin to display user coach marks utilizing shape cutouts over an existing UI.
Fluid Segmented Bar - Fluid Segmented Bar to liven up any standard SegmentedBar control.
Native Navigation - A NativeScript router by Dark that supports stack, tab, and modal navigation, nested screens, parameter passing, animated transitions, navigation hooks, and has zero dependencies.

Text & Typography

Auto Fit Text - A plugin that extends the Nativescript Label with the functionality to adjust the font size according to the label’s width.
Label Marquee - A Label which can scroll with a marquee effect when the text outgrows the available width.
Markdown View - A NativeScript view for displaying natively rendered Markdown.
UI Label - Alternative to the built-in NativeScript Label but with better performance and additional features such as HTML rendering and more.

Utility & Enhancement

UI PullToRefresh - A NativeScript plugin to provide the Pull to Refresh control on any view.
UI Share File - Send/share file to other apps.

Utility Plugins

Background Tasks & Notifications

Fetch Task - Background Fetch is a very simple plugin which will awaken an app in the background about every 15 minutes.
Local Notifications - A plugin that allows your app to show notifications when the app is not running.
Shared Notification Delegate - This project aims to prevent the shortcomings that come from the iOS implementation of only allowing a single delegate.
Task - A NativeScript module for simply handling background tasks via web workers.
Task Dispatcher - Task Dispatcher is a NativeScript plugin aimed to ease the execution of mobile app’s task definition and execution workflows in the background.

Communication & Networking

Background HTTP - A plugin that allows you to make background HTTP uploads.
Downloader - Is a NativeScript plugin used to download files from the internet directly to the user’s device.
Email - A plugin to compose an e-mail, have the user edit the draft manually and send it.
InAppBrowser - A NativeScript plugin that allows you to open URLs in an in-app browser.
Messenger - A NativeScript plugin for sending SMS or MMS.
MQTT - A cross-platform NativeScript plugin for MQTT communication.
SignalR - This is a NativeScript plugin that integrates SignalR—Microsoft’s real-time communication library—into your mobile apps for iOS and Android.
SMS Inbox - A NativeScript plugin to read text messages on android phone inbox.
SMS Receiver - A NativeScript plugin to receive SMS messages on android phone.
Social Share - A plugin that allows you to share content to social media.
Universal Links - Universal links (IOS) and App Links (Android) support for NativeScript.

Data & Storage

Array Buffers - Utility methods to work with Array Buffers in Nativescript.
Clipboard - A NativeScript plugin that provides simple APIs to copy to and read from the system clipboard.
Contacts - A plugin that allows you to access Contacts directory on iOS and Android.
MD5 - A NativeScript plugin for fast MD5 computation for files.
preferences - This plugin allows native preference saving/loading on iOS and Android.
Secure Storage - Secure Storage using SAMKeychain on iOS and Hawk on Android.

Development & Configuration

App Availability - A plugin that checks if an app is installed on a device.
Dotenv - A NativeScript plugin that enables the use of environment variables in your app.
Licenses - A Nativescript plugin to generate licenses JSON files.
Localize - A plugin that implements internationalization (i18n) using the native capabilities of each platform.

Device & Hardware Access

Accelerometer - An acceleration sensor measures the acceleration applied to the device, including the force of gravity.
Biometrics - A plugin that allows you to authenticate users with biometrics, such as fingerprints, facial recognition, etc.
Ble - Connect to and interact with Bluetooth LE peripherals.
Brightness - A plugin that get and set the device’s brightness level.
Camera - A plugin that allows you to take a picture and optionally save it on the device storage.
Compass - A NativeScript plugin that provides native compass functionality for both Android and iOS platforms.
Device Info - The plugin offers cross-platform utility APIs to retrieve or query device-related information.
Flashlight - This plugin allows you to enable/disable the flashlight/torch on your iOS/Android device.
GPS - Tracks GPS location updates regardless of the app state. Does not depend on Google Play Services.
Haptics - A plugin that allows you to add haptics to your app.
NFC - A NativeScript plugin to discover, read, and write NFC tags.
Nordic Semiconductor’s DFU - A NativeScript plugin that integrates Nordic Semiconductor’s DFU library.
Orientation - A NativeScript plugin to control and listen for device screen orientation changes.
Screen Orientation - This NativeScript plugin provides an easy and effective way to manage screen orientation across platforms. You can both read the current orientation and programmatically set a new orientation (including reverse modes).
Screen Protector - A NativeScript plugin to protect sensitive content from screen capture and recording. This plugin provides API methods to block screenshots and detect screen recording events — with native support for both iOS and Android.
Sleep Control - This plugin allows you to keep your device awake while the current app is running.
Store Update - A NativeScript plugin that provides useful methods to retrieve version information and check for updates in NativeScript applications (Android and iOS).
WearOS Sensors - A NativeScript plugin that provides access to various sensors on Wear OS devices.

Media & File Processing

Bitmap Factory - A NativeScript plugin for creating and manipulating bitmap images.
ffmpeg - A NativeScript plugin that allows you to run FFmpeg commands directly on mobile devices.
Image Cropper - A nativeScript image cropping plugin.
Image Optimize - Is a NativeScript plugin designed to optimize image rendering in applications.
Image Picker - Imagepicker plugin supporting both single and multiple selection.
Pdf - A simple PDF viewer.
Printer - A NativeScript plugin for sending an image, PDF or the screen contents to a physical printer.
Video Thumbnail - A plugin that allows you to extract a thumbnail from a video.
Zip - A plugin to zip and unzip files.

Search & AI

Algolia - A NativeScript plugin for Algolia search.
Speech Recognition - Speech to text, using the awesome engines readily available on the device.
TextToSpeech - A Text to Speech NativeScript plugin for Android & iOS.

Security & Context

Awarns Framework - Easing the development of context-aware apps.
Context APIs - A nativescript plugin to ease the access to mobile phone’s real-world context.
iOS Security - IOSSecuritySuite for NativeScript.

User Interface & Interaction

Gesture Handler - Declarative API exposing platform native touch and gesture system to NativeScript.
IQ Keyboard Manager - A NativeScript wrapper for the popular IQKeyboardManager iOS framework.
Intersection Observer - A NativeScript plugin that detects when a UI element enters or exits the viewport.
Keyboard - A NativeScript plugin that allows programmatically showing and hiding the virtual keyboard.
Keyboard Opening - A plugin that allows you to track keyboard opening, changing, closing and returns keyboard height.
System UI - Provides API for changing the styles of SystemUI (StatusBar, NavigationBar, Etc) on iOS.
Theme Switcher - A plugin that allows you to switch themes based on the theme from @nativescript/theme.
View Shot - Take a screenshot of an existing view, or render a view in the background and take a screenshot of it.

More Plugins

NativeScript Market - Community plugin directory.
NativeScript on NPM - Plugin list sorted by popularity.

Font & Font Icon

Fontawesome - How to Install and Use Fontawesome in NativeScript.
Material Design Symbols - Using Material Design Symbols in NativeScript.
Fonts - How to add fonts type in NativeScript.

Security

JavaScript obfuscator - JavaScript Obfuscator is a powerful free obfuscator for JavaScript, containing a variety of features which provide protection for your source code. (Tutorial)

Testing

Unit Testing

End-to-end Integration Testing

Detox - Gray box end-to-end testing and automation framework for mobile apps.
Maestro - Maestro is the simplest and most effective UI testing framework.

Background Service

Web Workers API - The Workers API in NativeScript is loosely based on the Web Workers API and the Web Workers Specification.
JSch - NativeScript using Workers for Background Threading - Android example demonstrating a SSH connection via com.jcraft.JSch.

macOS

Solidjs for macOS with NativeScript
- Try yourself with Solid Desktop on macOS

visionOS (Vision Pro)

Videos & Podcasts

Examples & Tutorials

Interactive Examples

AI & Machine Learning

Use Gemini Pro with NativeScript - Official demo showcasing Gemini Pro AI integration.
- Interactive Demo - Try it live on StackBlitz.
Morphing Swift to 100% TypeScript with NativeScript + AI - Advanced tutorial on converting Swift code to TypeScript using AI.

Platform-Specific

Apple FoundationModels Documentation - Official Apple documentation for on-device AI.
Stream AI Responses using iOS 26 FoundationModels - Tutorial on implementing streaming AI responses.
ns-ios-foundationmodels - Example NativeScript app using iOS 26+ FoundationModels.