dali-gharbi / nativescript-download-progress

Download large files in Nativescript with progress events

nativescript-download-progress

Introduction

This plugin allows you to download large files and provides progress updates.

Nativescripts http.getFile method stores the data in memory which causes out of memory exceptions with large files.

Installation

tns plugin add nativescript-download-progress

Javascript Example

var DownloadProgress = require("nativescript-download-progress").DownloadProgress;

var download = new DownloadProgress();
download.addProgressCallback(function(progress) {
    console.log('Progress:', progress);
})
download.downloadFile("http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/20MB.zip").then(function(f){
    console.log("Success", f);
}).catch(function(e){
    console.log("Error", e);
})

Typescript Example

import { DownloadProgress } from "nativescript-download-progress"

var download = new DownloadProgress();
download.addProgressCallback((progress)=>{
    console.log('Progress:', progress);
})
download.downloadFile("http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/20MB.zip").then((f)=>{
    console.log("Success", f);
}).catch((e)=>{
    console.log("Error", e);
})

License

Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004