Re: cordova remote proxy

2013-11-13 Thread Marcel Kinard
This is definitely interesting. I do see the main use case as developing on your workstation but the APIs are actually proxied to the device. This does add yet another workflow that can confuse users, unless the use case and usage is clearly explained. But it's not like we have a lot of debuggin

Re: cordova remote proxy

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew Grieve
Like it! 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 li

Re: cordova remote proxy

2013-11-12 Thread Julien Bouquillon [revolunet]
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 t

Re: cordova remote proxy

2013-11-12 Thread Andrew Grieve
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 t

cordova remote proxy

2013-11-07 Thread Julien Bouquillon
Hi there, Ive submitted the idea a while ago 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 timesa