error JSON.stringify()ing argument: RangeError: Invalid Date

There is minor bug in contact plugin in cordova ionic. contact list is loaded with error due to the birthdate field in contact card. Its bad practice to keep minor error in execution of code, It may effect to different OS versions.

error JSON.stringify()ing argument: RangeError: Invalid Date

Cordova Plugin: cordova-plugin-contacts
Verison: 2.1.0 "Contacts"

Open convertUtils.js file  

File Path: plugins/cordova-plugin-contacts/www/convertUtils.js

Find function "toCordovaFormat" and remove below try-catch code.

 try {
         contact.birthday = new Date(parseFloat(value));
} catch (exception){
          console.log("Cordova Contact toCordovaFormat error: exception creating date.");
}

add below code instead of try-catch

if (value !== null) {

        try {

                contact.birthday = new Date(parseFloat(value));

               

                //we might get 'Invalid Date' which does not throw an error

                //and is an instance of Date.

                if (isNaN(contact.birthday.getTime())) {

                       contact.birthday = null;

               }

               

        } catch (exception){

                console.log("Cordova Contact toCordovaFormat error: exception creating date.");

        }

}

Check below screenshot for better understand.

iOS contact card does not have value for "displayName". "displayName" is used for the android devices. So For iOS device, use "name.formatted" instead of "displayName".

Cheers.... Keep Coding... :)

Hybrid vs Native mobile apps

This is an interesting question.

Few years ago, now late Steve Jobs proclaimed that HTML5 is the future of web development. Ok this needs to be viewed in a broader context, at that point in time Apple was waging a war against Flash and HTML 5 was a unlucky winner.

Steve Jobs quote:

They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.

Get County from User Lat Long

In Mobile application how the server knows about the posted device country and response then as per the location.

Get the current location of the device and use google map api to get user location. Get location from the ipaddress is a worth thing now. because all the internet user use proxy network.

PHP:

<?php

$cur_lat =$_REQUEST['lat'];
$cur_lon = $_REQUEST['lon'];

Stop Copy Text from Phonegap Applications

Hello,

Phonegap application is based on the HTML, CSS and JQuery. So if the user double tap on the app content then it will select the text and give option to copy and select text.

So for the application privacy if app admin does not want to copy application text then here is a way to stop selection of text.

Numbers convert to currency formate

Copy below function in your js.

function formatCurrency(num) {

    num = num.toString().replace(/\$|\,/g,'');

    if(isNaN(num)) num = "0";

  // sign = (num == (num = Math.abs(num)));

    num = Math.floor(num*100+0.50000000001);

    cents = num%100;

    num = Math.floor(num/100).toString();

    if(cents<10) cents = "0" + cents;

    for (var i = 0; i < Math.floor((num.length-(1+i))/3); i++)

        num = num.substring(0,num.length-(4*i+3))+','+num.substring(num.length-(4*i+3));

    return ( num + '.' + cents);

}

call function to get currency formate:

$('#test').html(formatCurrency('123456.98'));

Output:
123,456.98

Cheers... 

Getting Started Phonegap with Android eclipse

Here is the steps that I follow to start a phonegap using android eclipse.
Refer the below link to configure the android eclipse and Sdk setup on your computer.
http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/16494774/Getting-started-with-Android-PhoneGap-in-Eclipse


don't Forget to setup the environment variable for the java, android, SDK and ant-home.
My Computer-->properties-->advance parameters