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Dash for iOS is now open source

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Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by duaneb »

maglavaitss wrote: post #13
johansch wrote: post #6

So this is the Romanian guy who was called out for blaming his "family member" for spamming the app store with paid ratings of his apps, while using his bank account for the Apple Developer connection? ... All after pretending to be innocent and causing many, many developers to rally for him, without knowing he manipulated them? How about we just ignore him and don't continue to reward him with attention?

Yeah, the guy's a fraud, just don't give him any attention.

For a fraud, I can actually use the app I paid for. Who cares about the author? This is a net win for everyone.

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by AsyncAwait »

wineisfine wrote: post #40

Nice that he did opensourced it. I personally never understood why this tool was so popular to start off with though. I often found myself using the original doc sites instead.

If you work with more than one language, going to all the sites constantly may be a problem.

Also, dash let you search for i.e. the class and then within the class public interface with just a spacebar.

Plus, it is a native app that you can launch quickly without having to search for the particular browser tab where you current docs is open.

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by duaneb »

johansch wrote: post #24
heisenbit wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What victims were there? My understanding is that there was some game playing with two accounts violating the terms of service. The affected relationship was developer - Apple and Apple has asserted itself here. There was also to the degree I know some misrepresentation of the conflict by the developer. Afaik. this has not gone to court and both developer and Apple seemed to want to stop talking about it. I believe w…

Anyone who has used the Apple Appstore is fractionally speaking the loser/victim - he spammed it. Do you ever wonder what the appstore would be like without spam bullshit? How quality software studios could make money instead of some hack like this buying ratings from a third-party on cookie cutter apps?

For a cookie cutter app, there are zero alternatives with feature parity. It's also notably much, much higher quality than the median app.

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by AsyncAwait »

johansch wrote: post #30
pkamb wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Kapeli decided not to [publicly apologize and clear up the issue] and released the private phone call with the Apple representative instead. Kapeli wrote the blog post Apple requested and sent it in for review. https://kapeli.com/apple_draft Apple never got back to him, and instead went to the press with statements that did not mention any of the circumstances, making clear that this was their final statement on th…

That is not an excuse. I can understand why Apple went forward, even after bending backwards to work with him. (And I'm really not an Apple apologist; please do checkout my post history if you're so inclined.)

> That is not an excuse. I can understand why Apple went forward,

Mind explaining it to us, I don't understand Apple's reasoning here after they said to him to send them the blog post.

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by AsyncAwait »

urza wrote: post #37

This is not related to Dash cryptocurrency I suppose? https://www.dash.org/ Dash (the cryptocurrency) has an iOS app, that has not been approved by Apple[1].. I wonder if it is related because of the name. 1: https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DOC/Download+-+In...

Nope, it's an offline API docs browser.

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by Aldo_MX »

wineisfine wrote: post #40

Nice that he did opensourced it. I personally never understood why this tool was so popular to start off with though. I often found myself using the original doc sites instead.

When you have a fast and stable internet connection you hardly appreciate how useful it is to read offline docs.

When you don't, it is a godsend.

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by on_and_off »

egwynn wrote: post #60
on_and_off wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have already tried this kind of app and I feel a bit stupid : I don't understand the use case. In which situation do people read documentation on their phone ?

It's not well documented online, but if you use Dash on Mac, then you can set up an iOS device as a 'Remote', which lets you use your phone/tablet as a second screen for documentation, which you control from your Mac. I think that's the primary usage scenario.

ahhh I see, thank you !

It makes sense that way.. I was wondering why would anybody really need that much to look at documentation while on the go.

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by ddrmaxgt37 »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #66
wineisfine wrote: post #40

Nice that he did opensourced it. I personally never understood why this tool was so popular to start off with though. I often found myself using the original doc sites instead.

When you have a fast and stable internet connection you hardly appreciate how useful it is to read offline docs. When you don't, it is a godsend.

this. I use it on the airplane with some libraries that have online only docs

Re: Dash for iOS is now open source

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Post by ssalazar »

wineisfine wrote: post #40

Nice that he did opensourced it. I personally never understood why this tool was so popular to start off with though. I often found myself using the original doc sites instead.

Loads instantly, + for Mac/iOS docs it is way more stable and usable than Xcode's docs browser.
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