NativeScript: ATOB() and BTOA() methods not working

I’m running 2.5 nativescript with 2.4 angular. I’m building on android, i haven’t tested ios.

In a pure js or angular2 app, atob() and btoa() work as expected. However, within an angular 2 nativescript app, those methods appear to somewhat pause the code but throw no errors at all.

Is this a known issue? Is there a fix?

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Created 7 years ago
Comments: 36 (12 by maintainers)

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Android

const text = new java.lang.String(“Yolo 10000”);
const data = text.getBytes(“UTF-8”);
const base64 = android.util.Base64.encodeToString(data,android.util.Base64.DEFAULT);
android.util.Base64.decode(text, android.util.Base64.DEFAULT);

IOS

const decodedData = NSData.alloc().initWithBase64EncodedStringOptions(base64String,0);
const decodedString = NSString.alloc().initWithDataEncoding(decodedData,NSUTF8StringEncoding);

@dlucidone ☝️

triniwiz on Nov 28, 2017

@mast3rd3mon there are native methods that can handle encoding/decoding of base64 for you in few lines of code. Example given by @triniwiz here

Android
const text = new java.lang.String("Yolo 10000");
const data = text.getBytes("UTF-8");
const base64 = android.util.Base64.encodeToString(data, android.util.Base64);

IOS
const text = NSString.stringWithString("Yolo 10000");
const data = text.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding);
const base64 = data.base64EncodedStringWithOptions(0);

NickIliev on May 5, 2017

Perfect, we can generate PDFs with {N}! 👍 https://play.nativescript.org/?template=play-ng&id=OGrw9s&v=13

jdnichollsc on Jan 18, 2018

@triniwiz Thanks a lot

dlucidone on Nov 28, 2017

@mast3rd3mon perhaps you can use custom implementation like this one

NickIliev on May 8, 2017

NativeScript works with the native mobile APIs and not with the DOM and those methods require a Window object which is simply non-existent in both Android and iOS. You can use Angular in NativeScript but not the DOM related properties and methods.

NickIliev on May 5, 2017