Enabling Web Inspector

Web Inspector functionality is disabled. You can enable it when you compile your HTML5 app.

To use Web Inspector in the browser, you enable it in the browser options. For a Cordova or an HTML5 application, you enable Web Inspector by specifying a command-line flag at compile time.

To begin debugging your app, you can install the Google Chrome browser or another WebKit browser for your platform. Once Web Inspector is enabled, you can access it using a supported device with the browser.

To enable Web Inspector for your app:
  1. Navigate to your cordova apps directory.
  2. Run the following command:
    build debug
    To launch your compiled app, you need to know the port number your app is running on. You can use netstat -a on your target to see the open ports. The listening port numbers start at 1337. For example:
    # netstat -a
    Active Internet connections (including servers)
    Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
    tcp        0      0  *.1337                 *.*                    LISTEN
    tcp        0      0  *.ssh                  *.*                    LISTEN
    tcp        0      0  *.telnet               *.*                    LISTEN
    tcp        0      0  *.8000                 *.*                    LISTEN
    udp        0      0  *.*                    *.*
    udp        0      0  *.bootpc               *.*
    Active Internet6 connections (including servers)
    Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)
    tcp6       0      0  *.ssh                  *.*                    LISTEN
    Active UNIX domain sockets
    Address  Type   Recv-Q Send-Q    Inode     Conn     Refs  Nextref Addr
     81556d8 stream      0      0        0  8155680        0        0
     8155680 stream      0      0        0  81556d8        0        0