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 onDeviceReady() function that is triggered when PhoneGap fires the deviceready event. Since Chrome doesn't fire this event, my code isn't ever initialized.

Here's a stripped down version of my code:

var dashboard = {};



$(document).ready(function() {

    document.addEventListener(deviceready, dashboard.onDeviceReady, false);

}); 



dashboard.onDeviceReady = function() {

    alert(hello!); //this is never fired in Chrome

};

I've tried using the StopGap code, which basically just does the following:

var e = document.createEvent('Events'); 

e.initEvent(deviceready);

document.dispatchEvent(e);

But when I run that code in the Chrome javascript console, the hello alert still doesn't trigger. What am I doing wrong? Or does chrome just not support firing custom events like deviceready?