How to test vibration function in android?

Question

I am writing a simple Phonegap application for Android. This program will send notification to notification bar and make the phone vibrate periodically.

I use navigator.notification.vibrate(time_period) to achieve the target. According to this article, both beep and vibration are not supported by android emulator. Hence, I was expecting that there could be entry indicating failure of it in the Catlog, but there is no such entry. The question is how to make sure that a vibration event has happened or failed (without deploying to a device).

AppHarbor looks like one of the ways to debug Phonegap application remotely. I wonder if there is other local ways to test Phonegap application as an HTML5 website in a Chrome browser (navigator.notification call is a standard call)? If yes, then it is probably possible to somehow parse the browser's console automatically to find out if the vibration event has happened.

Answer 1

Can you hide the vibrate() call behind an abstraction which you can replace depending on which platform you are using?

For example

var vibrateFunc = function(time_period) {
    if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('chrome') > -1) {
        console.log('vibrating for ' + time_period)
    } else {
        navigator.notification.vibrate(time_period)
    }
}

and then have your app code call vibrateFunc() whenever it wants to vibrate.