Chapter 7

PhoneGap Emulator and Remote Debugging

Introduction

The biggest pain I experienced when I worked on building the PhoneGap application is the following cycle:

  1. Develop an eclipse/xcode or irrespective IDE
  2. Compile and put the binary executable on device/emulator
  3. Test PhoneGap application on device/emulator
  4. Tweak code and repeat from step 1

Clearly this cycle is very time consuming and frustrating. If you are an experienced JavaScript developer, this would be a nightmare for you.

JavaScript developers are used to handy tools on the following modern browsers:

  1. Firefox
  2. Safari
  3. Chrome
  4. Internet Explorer

(Note that for iPhone and Android development, Internet Explorer is not useful. We recommend the use of Firefox, Safari, or Chrome for ...

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