Developing Apache Cordova (aka Phonegap) applications tends to be rather painful: the long waits while compiling an application for Android and uploading it to the device (or emulator) leads to unacceptable round trip times, especially for applications with lots of large content files (images, videos). In this blog post we’ll explain how we develop Cordova applications directly in the desktop web browser, and announce an open source release of a RequireJS module that helps making this a little easier for us.