diff --git a/lib/common b/lib/common
index 46e271fc22..e8426828e3 160000
--- a/lib/common
+++ b/lib/common
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 46e271fc2280d9b45bd027f78f0f411e9b8d474f
+Subproject commit e8426828e3569571ddde07441e99591cdcfccb92
diff --git a/lib/definitions/plugins.d.ts b/lib/definitions/plugins.d.ts
index 2935878a59..35e38b63ab 100644
--- a/lib/definitions/plugins.d.ts
+++ b/lib/definitions/plugins.d.ts
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ interface IPluginVariablesService {
 	 * @return {IFuture<string>}		returns the changed plugin configuration file content.
 	 */
 	getPluginVariablePropertyName(pluginData: IPluginData): string;
+
 }
 
 interface IPluginVariableData {
diff --git a/lib/services/ios-project-service.ts b/lib/services/ios-project-service.ts
index ff8a20a8fd..271c9ebf77 100644
--- a/lib/services/ios-project-service.ts
+++ b/lib/services/ios-project-service.ts
@@ -516,15 +516,12 @@ export class IOSProjectService extends projectServiceBaseLib.PlatformProjectServ
 			let podTool = this.$config.USE_POD_SANDBOX ? "sandbox-pod" : "pod";
 			let childProcess = this.$childProcess.spawnFromEvent(podTool,  ["install"], "close", { cwd: this.platformData.projectRoot, stdio: ['pipe', process.stdout, 'pipe'] }).wait();
 			if (childProcess.stderr) {
-				let warnings = childProcess.stderr.match(/(\u001b\[(?:\d*;){0,5}\d*m[\s\S]+?\u001b\[(?:\d*;){0,5}\d*m)|(\[!\].*?\n)/g);
+				let warnings = childProcess.stderr.match(/(\u001b\[(?:\d*;){0,5}\d*m[\s\S]+?\u001b\[(?:\d*;){0,5}\d*m)|(\[!\].*?\n)|(.*?warning.*)/gi);
 				_.each(warnings, (warning: string) => {
 					this.$logger.warnWithLabel(warning.replace("\n", ""));
 				});
 
-				// HACK for silencing irrelevant linking warnings when pod installing on
-				// El Capitan with cocoa pods version 0.38.2
-				// Reference https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4302
-				let errors = childProcess.stderr.replace(/dyld: warning, LC_RPATH @executable_path.*?@executable_path/g, "");
+				let errors = childProcess.stderr;
 				_.each(warnings, warning => {
 					errors = errors.replace(warning, "");
 				});
diff --git a/lib/services/platform-service.ts b/lib/services/platform-service.ts
index daf7447617..948c169c1c 100644
--- a/lib/services/platform-service.ts
+++ b/lib/services/platform-service.ts
@@ -154,11 +154,25 @@ export class PlatformService implements IPlatformService {
 		}).future<string[]>()();
 	}
 
-	@helpers.hook('prepare')
 	public preparePlatform(platform: string): IFuture<void> {
 		return (() => {
 			this.validatePlatform(platform);
 
+			//We need dev-dependencies here, so before-prepare hooks will be executed correctly.
+			try {
+				this.$pluginsService.ensureAllDependenciesAreInstalled().wait();
+			} catch(err) {
+				this.$logger.trace(err);
+				this.$errors.failWithoutHelp(`Unable to install dependencies. Make sure your package.json is valid and all dependencies are correct. Error is: ${err.message}`);
+			}
+
+			this.preparePlatformCore(platform).wait();
+		}).future<void>()();
+	}
+
+	@helpers.hook('prepare')
+	private preparePlatformCore(platform: string): IFuture<void> {
+		return (() => {
 			platform = platform.toLowerCase();
 			this.ensurePlatformInstalled(platform).wait();
 
@@ -214,7 +228,6 @@ export class PlatformService implements IPlatformService {
 			// Process node_modules folder
 			let appDir = path.join(platformData.appDestinationDirectoryPath, constants.APP_FOLDER_NAME);
 			try {
-				this.$pluginsService.ensureAllDependenciesAreInstalled().wait();
 				let tnsModulesDestinationPath = path.join(appDir, PlatformService.TNS_MODULES_FOLDER_NAME);
 				this.$broccoliBuilder.prepareNodeModules(tnsModulesDestinationPath, platform, lastModifiedTime).wait();
 			} catch(error) {
diff --git a/lib/services/plugins-service.ts b/lib/services/plugins-service.ts
index ed85813b5b..0951f4de4e 100644
--- a/lib/services/plugins-service.ts
+++ b/lib/services/plugins-service.ts
@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ export class PluginsService implements IPluginsService {
 		return (() => {
 			let installedDependencies = this.$fs.exists(this.nodeModulesPath).wait() ? this.$fs.readDirectory(this.nodeModulesPath).wait() : [];
 			let packageJsonContent = this.$fs.readJson(this.getPackageJsonFilePath()).wait();
-			if(this.$options.force || (packageJsonContent.dependencies && _.difference(_.keys(packageJsonContent.dependencies), installedDependencies).length)) {
+			let allDependencies = _.keys(packageJsonContent.dependencies).concat(_.keys(packageJsonContent.devDependencies));
+			if(this.$options.force || _.difference(allDependencies, installedDependencies).length) {
 				let command = "npm install ";
 				if(this.$options.ignoreScripts) {
 					command += "--ignore-scripts";
diff --git a/lib/services/usb-livesync-service.ts b/lib/services/usb-livesync-service.ts
index 88ed619ea5..321eab9f0f 100644
--- a/lib/services/usb-livesync-service.ts
+++ b/lib/services/usb-livesync-service.ts
@@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ export class UsbLiveSyncService extends usbLivesyncServiceBaseLib.UsbLiveSyncSer
 
 			let platformData = this.$platformsData.getPlatformData(platformLowerCase);
 
+			this.$projectDataService.initialize(this.$projectData.projectDir);
+			let frameworkVersion = this.$projectDataService.getValue(platformData.frameworkPackageName).wait().version;
+
 			if (platformLowerCase === this.$devicePlatformsConstants.Android.toLowerCase()) {
-				this.$projectDataService.initialize(this.$projectData.projectDir);
-				let frameworkVersion = this.$projectDataService.getValue(platformData.frameworkPackageName).wait().version;
 				if (semver.lt(frameworkVersion, "1.2.1")) {
 					let shouldUpdate = this.$prompter.confirm(
 						"You need Android Runtime 1.2.1 or later for LiveSync to work properly. Do you want to update your runtime now?"
@@ -139,6 +140,8 @@ export class UsbLiveSyncService extends usbLivesyncServiceBaseLib.UsbLiveSyncSer
 								return platformSpecificUsbLiveSyncService.sendPageReloadMessageToDevice(deviceAppData).wait();
 							});
 						}
+
+						this.$logger.info(`Successfully synced application ${this.$projectData.projectId}.`);
 					}).future<void>()();
 				});
 			};
@@ -156,7 +159,7 @@ export class UsbLiveSyncService extends usbLivesyncServiceBaseLib.UsbLiveSyncSer
 				beforeLiveSyncAction: beforeLiveSyncAction,
 				beforeBatchLiveSyncAction: beforeBatchLiveSyncAction,
 				iOSSimulatorRelativeToProjectBasePathAction: iOSSimulatorRelativeToProjectBasePathAction,
-				canExecuteFastLiveSync: (filePath: string) => _.contains(fastLivesyncFileExtensions, path.extname(filePath)),
+				canExecuteFastLiveSync: (filePath: string) => _.contains(fastLivesyncFileExtensions, path.extname(filePath)) && semver.gte(frameworkVersion, "1.5.0"),
 				fastLiveSync: fastLiveSync
 			};
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b4a7f45813..1bcc36f325 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "nativescript",
   "preferGlobal": true,
-  "version": "1.5.0",
+  "version": "1.6.0",
   "author": "Telerik <support@telerik.com>",
   "description": "Command-line interface for building NativeScript projects",
   "bin": {