onDeviceReady not firing in PhoneGap hello world app

Question

I\'m trying to do a simple alert(\'test\') app, but the event isn\'t being fired, this is the code:

function onLoad() {
    document.addEventListener("de         


        

Answer 1

This works in Cordova apps (tested on iOS and Android) and ordinary web pages. No library (jQuery) needed.

// Use onDeviceReady if we run in Cordova
window.addEventListener('load', function(){
    if (window.Cordova) {
        document.addEventListener('DeviceReady', bootstrap, false);
    } else {
        bootstrap();
    }
}, false);

The Cordova documentation says that the DeviceReady event is made so, that it can't be missed. The handler will be called even if the device was ready before.