Plugins are the key to unlocking many rich features of the native platforms. Let’s learn how to integrate the nativescript-checkbox plugin to register a new custom UI component for use in our views.
it did not work from me as is i.e. installing the plugin checkbox using npm install. On android it could not find the plugin. see the link below for workaround if you are using npm version 3 or greater. https://github.com/NativeScript/nativescript-angular/issues/423