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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
angular, typescript
Domain
mobile-dev

Research direction

Run tns info and inspect the project's package.json to confirm the Angular 16, TypeScript 5, and TSLib 2.5 versions. Reproduce the failure using a custom activity as described in the NativeScript docs; done means the app starts normally and the custom activity is usable without the reported class-not-found error.

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Description

Environment
Provide version numbers for the following components (information can be retrieved by running tns info in your project folder or by inspecting the package.json of the project):

  • NativeScript-Angular: 16
  • Angular: 16

Describe the bug
Using Angular 16 which uses Typescript 5 and updated TSLib renders custom activities unusable and does not allow the app to start. Refer to this chat

https://discord.com/channels/603595811204366337/606457628729671691/1108803693844901968

System.err: An uncaught Exception occurred on "main" thread.
  System.err: Unable to create application com.tns.NativeScriptApplication: com.tns.NativeScriptException: Error calling module function
  System.err: Error: com.tns.system.classes.loading.LookedUpClassNotFound: Class "com.companymfg.activity" not found.
  System.err: File: (file: src\webpack:\inventory\webpack\bootstrap:27:0)
  System.err:
  System.err: StackTrace:
  System.err: (/data/data/com.companymfg.inventory/files/internal/ts_helpers.js:154:26)
  System.err:   at __esDecorate(file: src\webpack:\inventory\node_modules\tslib\tslib.es6.js:77:0)
  System.err:   at (file:///data/data/com.companymfg.inventory/files/app/bundle.js:741:9)
  System.err:   at (file:///data/data/com.companymfg.inventory/files/app/bundle.js:744:7)
  System.err:   at ./src/activity.android.ts(file:///data/data/com.companymfg.inventory/files/app/bundle.js:746:2)
  System.err:   at __webpack_require__(file: src\webpack:\inventory\webpack\bootstrap:24:0)
  System.err:   at __webpack_exec__(file:///data/data/com.companymfg.inventory/files/app/bundle.js:71277:39)
  System.err:   at (file:///data/data/com.companymfg.inventory/files/app/bundle.js:71278:224)
  System.err:   at __webpack_require__.X(file: src\webpack:\inventory\webpack\runtime\startup entrypoint:6:0)
  System.err:   at (file:///data/data/com.companymfg.inventory/files/app/bundle.js:71278:47)
  System.err:   at (file:///data/data/com.companymfg.inventory/files/app/bundle.js:71283:3)
  System.err:   at require(:1:266)

To Reproduce

Update Typescript to 5, TSLib 2.5, Angular 16. Use custom activity as stated in Nativescript Docs

Expected behavior
App to run normally

Sample project

Additional context

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TypeScript
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Merged PRs (30d)
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