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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Julien Bouquillon [revolunet] <
jul...@revolunet.com> wrote:
> Thanks Andrew
>
> Not "device-sensor-heavy" only imho. Imagine you're developing an app that
> needs access to the contact list; instead of creating a mock, you could
> request the contact list API remotely from your real device to your chrome
> while developing on your desktop, so you can experiment with the real
> cordova API.
>
> The goal is to make phonegap development easier when you use devices APIs
> (prevent the slow build/transfer/device testing phase)
>
> What about switching to a "proxy" mode when the app starts ?
>
> eg:
> cordova.setDevice('http://192.168.1.100:6767')
>
> Then all cordova calls would be proxified and relayed to the remote device
>
> (I dont have all the keys about cordova internals so this can sound
> crazy/silly.)
>
> Comments appreciated :)
>
>
> Julien
>
>
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> 2013/11/12 Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org>
>
> > Very neat idea. My gut is that it would be useful only to a small set of
> > device-sensor-heavy apps, but probably will be quite useful to them. Also
> > useful would be a way to record & playback calls over the exec() bridge.
> >
> > How to implement it is a good question though. Seems like it might be
> > enough to have a custom app template that people could use to build their
> > "remote" apps (e.g. cordova create --template=remote-app).
> >
> > The hijacking of exec() could be done as a plugin you add to your project
> > maybe?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Julien Bouquillon <jul...@revolunet.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Ive submitted the idea a while
> > > ago<http://markmail.org/message/cqpy7f5wqba4emed> on
> > > the cordova ML and now that the cordova codebase is much more sane and
> > > promises-based API are on their way we can put the subject back the
> > > discussion table ;)
> > >
> > > Basically, it would be very handy and timesaving for developers to be
> > able
> > > to call the real devices APIs right from their dev environnement
> (chrome
> > > desktop for me), using a kind of "proxy".
> > >
> > > Both @gordtanner and i have prototyped something related a bit some
> time
> > > ago :
> > > https://github.com/gtanner/ripple-companion
> > > https://github.com/revolunet/remote-cordova
> > >
> > > Some ideas :
> > > - implement a "remote" platform in cordova that would be configurable
> > > using a custom host:post+password scheme.
> > > - relay requests/responses using socket.io or similar; maybe
> @substack
> > > dnode project could help here.
> > > - create basic native apps with a webview and a "runner" that just
> > execute
> > > API calls and return responses.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if it can be done with a custom cordova "platform" only or
> > if
> > > this is more a ripple module.
> > >
> > > This could allow developers to dev the whole app JS code in their
> desktop
> > > directly. Only the UI will still need to be tested on real devices.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thoughts ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > > Julien Bouquillon (@revolunet)
> > >
> >
>
