NativeScript's Intellisense (Android) - is not showing some methods?

Question

Using WebStorm, I have a Progress element :

<Progress  id="prgressid" ></Progress>

I want to increase its height. It can be done via scaleY=".." attribute or via native code :

mProgressBar.setScaleY(3);

I've decided to do it via code but the intellisene shows me :

Another try without .android.

It doesn't have the setScaleY method.
(if I try to use setScale method - it fails at runtime - But if I try setScaleY - it does work.)

Question:

Why isn't the method shown ? And what should I see in order to see all accessible methods ?

tns info :

Sdk manager

Answer 1

EDIT: the initial snippet had an error - in fact, you can access the public methods setScaleY and setScaleX but you will need the typings (via tns-platform-declarations) and also we would need to cast the native component to android.widget.ProgressBar (otherwise it would be of type any)

For example:

<Progress value="50" loaded="onPbLoaded" />

TypeScript

export function onPbLoaded(args) {
    let pb = <Progress>args.object;

    if(isAndroid) {
        let nativeProgress = <android.widget.ProgressBar>pb.android; // android.widget.ProgressBar{d26eea9 V.ED..... ......ID 0,0-0,0}
        console.log("nativeProgress Android: " + nativeProgress); 

        nativeProgress.setScaleX(3);
        nativeProgress.setScaleY(5);
    }
}