How to fire deviceready event in Chrome browser (trying to debug phonegap project)

Question

I\'m developing a PhoneGap application and I\'d like to be able to debug it in Chrome rather than on the phone. However, I do the initialization of my code in an onDeviceRe

Answer 1

You simulate events like this:

const simulateEvent = (eventName, attrs = {customData:"data"}, time = 1000, target = document) => {
    let event = new CustomEvent(eventName, { detail:  attrs });    
    setTimeout(() => {
        target.dispatchEvent(event);
    }, time);
};

var divReady = document.querySelector('div#ready');

document.addEventListener('deviceready', (e) => {
 console.log("triggered with:", e.detail);
 divReady.innerHTML = `Ready! ${JSON.stringify(e.detail)}`;
});

simulateEvent('deviceready', {customData:"My custom data goes in event.detail"});

<div id="ready"> Wait for ready... </div>

Answer 2

I use Safari for debugging and do this:

//my standard PG device ready
document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
function onDeviceReady() {
//debug("onDeviceReady")
getDefaultPageSetup();

}

//then add this (for safari
window.onload = function () {
if(! window.device)
    onDeviceReady()
}

Answer 3

Enhancing Chemik suggestion. The following code uses navigator.userAgent string to generically determine if the client browser is on a mobile platform.

The purpose of the separation from desktop browsers is to allow code verifying prior to compiling/installing android apk, etc. It is much faster to make a quick code change, refresh desktop browser vs. compiling in eclipse and loading on android. Another added bonus is the ability to use weinre in one tab & the index.html from android assets in another tab (and use firebug).

PS: weinre code is excluded since it has my private VPS info & UUID.

thx!

<!-- Framework:jQuery -->
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1.2, minimum-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=3.0, user-scalable=yes" >
<link  href="./framework/jquery/mobile/1.2.0/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.css" type="text/css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" title="JQuery Mobile">
<script src="./framework/jquery/jquery-1.8.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="./framework/jquery/mobile/1.2.0/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.js"></script>

<!-- Framework:Weinre -->

<!-- Framework:PhoneGap -->
<script src="./framework/phonegap/cordova-2.0.0.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
    var mobile = false;
    if (navigator.userAgent.match(/(iPhone|iPod|iPad|Android|BlackBerry)/)) {
        document.addEventListener("deviceready", function(){mobile = true; onDeviceReady();}, false);
    } else {
        $(document).ready(onDeviceReady);   
    }
    function onDeviceReady() {
        setEvents();
        test();
        if (mobile) {
            navigator.notification.alert("Debugging-ready for\n" + navigator.userAgent);
        } else {
            alert("Debugging-ready for\n" + navigator.userAgent);
        }
    };
</script>