diff --git a/build/platform-declarations/.gitignore b/build/platform-declarations/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b4629f1e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/platform-declarations/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+/diffs/
+/actuals/
+/extracted/
+*.tgz
diff --git a/build/platform-declarations/gruntfile.js b/build/platform-declarations/gruntfile.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e056e6799
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/platform-declarations/gruntfile.js
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+module.exports = function(grunt) {
+
+    var fsModule = require("fs");
+
+    function cleanDeps(content, srcPath) {
+        var contentAsJson = JSON.parse(content);
+        delete contentAsJson.devDependencies;
+        return JSON.stringify(contentAsJson, null, "\t");
+    }
+
+    function isDiff(content, srcPath) {
+        var relativePath = srcPath.replace(/actuals\//, "");
+        var extractedRelativePath = "extracted/package/" + relativePath;
+        grunt.log.fail(extractedRelativePath);
+        try {
+            if (fsModule.statSync(extractedRelativePath)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        } catch (ex) {
+            if (content.match(/\s*\/\/@private.*/)) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            return content;
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    grunt.initConfig({
+        copy: {
+            package: {
+                src: "../../bin/dist/tns-core-modules*.tgz",
+                dest: "./tns-core-modules.tgz"
+            },
+            packagejson: {
+                expand: true,
+                src: "./package.json",
+                dest: "./diffs/",
+                options: {
+                    process: cleanDeps
+                }
+            },
+            actualDeclaraions: {
+                expand: true,
+                src: [
+                    "**/*.d.ts",
+                    "!bin/**/*.*",
+                    "!.git/**/*.*",
+                    "!node_modules/**/*.*",
+                    "!apps/**/*.*",
+                    "!node-tests/**/*.*",
+                    "!**/*.android.d.ts",
+                    "!**/*.ios.d.ts",
+                    "!build/**/*.*"
+                ],
+                dest: "./actuals",
+                cwd: "../../"
+            },
+            differentNoPrivateFiles: {
+                expand: true,
+                src: "./**/*.*",
+                dest: "./diffs/",
+                cwd: "./actuals",
+                options: {
+                    process: isDiff
+                }
+            },
+            packeddeclarations: {
+                expand: true,
+                src: "./*.tgz",
+                dest: "./",
+                cwd: "./diffs"
+            }
+        },
+        shell: {
+            unpackPackage: {
+                command: "tar -zxvf tns-core-modules.tgz -C ./extracted"
+            },
+            createExtractedDir: {
+                command: "mkdir ./extracted"
+            },
+            createActualsDir: {
+                command: "mkdir ./actuals"
+            },
+            createDiffsDir: {
+                command: "mkdir ./diffs"
+            },
+            packdeclarations: {
+                command: "npm pack",
+                options: {
+                    execOptions: {
+                        cwd: "./diffs"
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        },
+        clean: {
+            package: {
+                src: "./tns-core-modules.tgz"
+            },
+            extractedDir: {
+                src: "./extracted"
+            },
+            actualsDir: {
+                src: "./actuals"
+            },
+            diffsDir: {
+                src: ["./diffs/**/*.*", "./diffs"]
+            },
+            extractedNonDeclarations: {
+                src: ["./extracted/**/*.*", "!./extracted/**/*.d.ts"]
+            }
+        }
+    });
+
+    grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-shell");
+    grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-contrib-copy");
+    grunt.loadNpmTasks("grunt-contrib-clean");
+
+    grunt.registerTask("default", [
+        "clean:extractedDir",
+        "clean:actualsDir",
+        "clean:diffsDir",
+        "clean:package",
+        "copy:package",
+        "shell:createExtractedDir",
+        "shell:unpackPackage",
+        "clean:package",
+        "clean:extractedNonDeclarations",
+        "shell:createActualsDir",
+        "copy:actualDeclaraions",
+        "shell:createDiffsDir",
+        "copy:differentNoPrivateFiles",
+        "clean:extractedDir",
+        "clean:actualsDir",
+        "copy:packagejson",
+        "shell:packdeclarations",
+        "copy:packeddeclarations",
+        "clean:diffsDir",
+    ]);
+}
diff --git a/build/platform-declarations/package.json b/build/platform-declarations/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0fb26ec6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/platform-declarations/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{
+  "name": "tns-platform-declarations",
+  "version": "1.7.1",
+  "description": "Platform-specific TypeScript declarations for NativeScript for accessing native objects",
+  "main": "",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+ssh://git@github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript.git"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "NativeScript",
+    "TypeScript",
+    "declarations",
+    "native",
+    "platform-specific",
+    "tns",
+    "ts",
+    "ns"
+  ],
+  "author": {
+    "name": "Telerik",
+    "email": "support@telerik.com",
+    "url": "http://www.telerik.com"
+  },
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/issues"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript#readme",
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "grunt": "^0.4.5",
+    "grunt-contrib-clean": "^0.7.0",
+    "grunt-contrib-copy": "git+https://github.com/ErjanGavalji/grunt-contrib-copy.git#1c976a133210be4ce8c96313f5daf14833f7f8f9",
+    "grunt-shell": "^1.1.2"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/build/platform-declarations/run.sh b/build/platform-declarations/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..7287811bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/platform-declarations/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+grunt --verbose