Emulating PhoneGap/Cordova Apps in the Desktop Browser. Earlier this month the PhoneGap team held the first PhoneGap day. This was in part to celebrate the release of PhoneGap 2.0, but more importantly to bring together members of the PhoneGap community to share and learn from each other. There are great recaps of PhoneGap Day from RedMonk, as well as on the PhoneGap blog. One of the new services announced on PhoneGap Day was emulate.phonegap.com. Emulate.phonegap.com enables an in-browser simulator for developing and debugging PhoneGap/Cordova applications, complete with Cordova API emulation. Emulate.phonegap.com is built as a Google Chrome Extension, so it requires the Chrome browser.
Once launched, the URL that you want to simulate will be displayed within the Ripple operating environment view. Note: This only works with assets that are on a live URL. Update: You can enable access to local files by changing a few settings on the Ripple emulator. (click for full-size image) So how do you use this environment?
Apache Cordova API Documentation. Technical Note TN2250: Technical Note TN2250. Files.meetup.com/1715272/phonegap-for-engineers.pdf. Build. Apache Cordova API Documentation. PhoneGap Build.