NativeScript push notifications permission dialog shows behind app - nativescript

Do you know what could be causing the permissions request dialog on iOS to show behind the app? It actually flashes quickly and then goes behind. I have to press the home button to bring it to the front. Until then the UI is blocked.
I am using Everlive and I am calling the register method in the app's launchEvent as such:
var pushSettings = {
//iOS - specific settings
iOS: {
badge: true,
sound: true,
alert: true,
clearBadge: true
},
notificationCallbackIOS: function (userInfo) {
...
},
//Android - specific settings
android: {
projectNumber: '944301213976'
},
notificationCallbackAndroid: function callback(data) {
...
}
}
el.push.register(pushSettings, function (data) {
...
}, function (error) {
});
Thank you.
EDIT: I should add that I am testing on iOS 9.3.4 and right before the dialog goes behind the app, I get the following warning in the console: enabledRemoteNotificationTypes is not supported in iOS 8.0 and later. Not sure if it matters, but I wanted to mention it, just in case.

So, it turns out that it was a timing issue. I was running the code when the app was initializing. The popup will get displayed, but shortly after, the first screen (login in my case) gets initialized, stealing the focus from the popup.
Once I moved the code in a button tap event (after the screen loading was completed) everything worked as expected.
I am not sure if this is the best way to handle this. I am open for suggestions.
Also, you can see https://github.com/NativeScript/push-plugin/issues/38 for more info. Thank you Anton Dobrev for pointing me to the right direction.

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Is there some way I can catch for this happening or prevent it? I can try to make a demo app for it, but I feel this might have happened to somebody already.
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I am working on a nativescript app for android and ios in which I have used REST APIs to store/get data in JSON format.
Based on JSON result from APIs sometime I need to show alert to the user.
It was working fine with Nativescript 4.1 but since I have upgraded to 4.2 app is unable to show alert boxs in ios. It shows the blank page and shows the following error.
(UIKitCore) Warning: Attempt to present <UIAlertController: 0x7fb5834eb000> on <UIViewControllerImpl: 0x7fb58659a670> whose view is not in the window hierarchy!
I have suspected that I am calling alert too early so I have tried to add timeout before alert but still it's the same.
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Debugging Content Scripts for Chrome Extension

General Questions
Hello! I'm delving into the world of Chrome Extensions and am having some problems getting the overall workflow down. It seems that Google has recently switched to heavily advocating Event Pages instead of keeping everything in background.js and background.html. I take part of this to mean that we should pass off most of your extension logic to a content script.
In Google's Event Page primer, they have the content script listed in the manifest.json file. But in their event page example extension, it is brought in via this code block in background.js: chrome.tabs.executeScript(tab.id, {file: "content.js"}, function() { });
What are the advantages of doing it one way over the other?
My Code
I'm going forward with the programatic way of injecting the content script, like Google's example.
manifest.json
{
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "Test",
"description": "Let's get this sucker working",
"version": "0.0.0.1",
"permissions": [
"tabs",
"*://*/*"
],
"background": {
"scripts": ["background.js"],
"persistent": false
},
"browser_action": {
"default_icon": "icon.png"
}
}
background.js
chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function() {
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chrome.tabs.executeScript({file: "jquery-2.0.2.min.js"}, function() {
console.log("jquery Loaded");
});
chrome.tabs.executeScript({file: "content.js"}, function() {
console.log("content loaded");
});
});
content.js
console.log('you\'r in the world of content.js');
var ans = {};
ans.createSidebar = function() {
return {
init: function(){
alert("why hello there");
}
}
}();
ans.createSidebar.init();
I am able to get the first 3 console.log statements to show up in the background page's debugger. I'm also able to get the alert from content.js to show up in any website. But I'm not able to see the console.log from content.js, nor am I able to view any of the JS from content.js. I've tried looking in the "content scripts" section of the background page debugger's Sources tab. A few other posts on SO have suggested adding debugger; statements to get it to show, but I'm not having any luck with anything. The closest solution I've seen is this post, but is done by listing the content script in the manifest.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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I tried to use the debuggermethod, but it doesn't not work well because the project is using require.js to bundle javascript files.
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manifest v3
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