Missing Date Picker in Android 4 (Nexus 7 Tablet)

[Christopher]

Hi,

I'm trying to get the Date Picker in a form.
When viewing the online demo with the Nexus 7, the native Date Picker shows up.
When I am using the code, pack everything with PhoneGap I only receive a plain input. Any ideas? Code follows below.

 <form action="">
 <ul data-role="listview" data-style="inset">
  <li>
   <label>
    Estimated Date:
    <input id="estimatedDate_input" type="date" />
   </label>                            
  </li>
 </ul>
</form>

Do I need an init or something like that - everything else (not much) like views and transistions are working.

[Kamen Bundev]

Hello Christopher,

By default Kendo UI Mobile doesn't have integrated date/time pickers as most platforms already support them.

The default browser on Nexus 7 is Chrome which supports native HTML5 date/time pickers. However PhoneGap still uses the old WebKit found on previous Android devices that doesn't support native pickers. To work around that you can use input validation or an external picker library.

All the best,
Kamen Bundev
the Telerik team

[Christopher]

Hi Kamen,
thank you for your quick reply.
If you say, there is no support für Date inputs, how have you build your demo where a system based date picker shows up?

Kind regards

[Kamen Bundev]

Hello Christopher,

We just style HTML5 inputs of type date to do that. So, Chrome does show a date picker for an input of type date, default WebView does not.

Regards,
Kamen Bundev
the Telerik team

[Christopher]

Hello Kamen,

now I see. So there are features which are not supported by the WebView engine.
Do you know if there is a list about differences between Chrome and WebView engine?


Kind regards

[Kamen Bundev]

Hello Christopher,

There are many differences - check the Android Browser and Google Chrome on Mobile HTML5 compatibility site.

Regards,
Kamen Bundev
the Telerik team