Not entirely sure how this made front page, but it is a super handy lib. I don't understand why Android includes this lib in their source but makes it internal so you have to provide your own copy if you want to use it in your app: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libphonen...
Google's phone number handling library
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Re: Google's phone number handling library
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#43Ha, good to see this here - so incredibly useful, and already ported to lots of useful languages. Handling phone numbers gets messy really quickly: formatting/validation for national/international numbers, in different forms (land-line/mobile/premium etc), in hundreds of different countries... These guys have done a great job, and are also super responsive/helpful when you raise issues. A word of warning: if you ever…
Looks awesome; will consider using this in the future. One note: it would be nice if you explicitly stated, in the LICENSE file or the readme, that this is under the MIT license. It'd make it easier to use this at companies (like mine) where open source packages can only be used if their license is on a legal-department-approved whitelist.
Re: Google's phone number handling library
#44Ha, good to see this here - so incredibly useful, and already ported to lots of useful languages. Handling phone numbers gets messy really quickly: formatting/validation for national/international numbers, in different forms (land-line/mobile/premium etc), in hundreds of different countries... These guys have done a great job, and are also super responsive/helpful when you raise issues. A word of warning: if you ever…
Please make this a node package at some point.