Relevant HN threads:<p>Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646919" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646919</a><p>Apple Responds to Dash Controversy: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12680131" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12680131</a>
I stopped using Dash long time ago.<p><a href="http://devdocs.io/" rel="nofollow">http://devdocs.io/</a> is enough for me.
I am not the author but here is a similar app for Android users. Previously it was a paid app but now it is free.<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lovelyhq.android.lovelydocs" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lovelyhq.a...</a>
Pretty interesting - on the Dash blog in October[1], the developer said that open-source wouldn't be a great option because compiling iOS apps is difficult for most non-iOS developers.<p>It's a shame, IMO, that iOS apps only have two wide-distribution models: paid, with Apple, on the App Store, or open-source and, by that nature, free. There's a lot of really great software on OS X that is distributed outside the Mac App Store. Clearly there's no plan for something similar to that on iOS.<p><a href="https://blog.kapeli.com/dear-dash-users/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.kapeli.com/dear-dash-users/</a>
I applaud him for doing this. I'm sure he's spent a lot of time building this product and to open source it is pretty awesome. I've seen lots of other products I like just disappear after they are taken down.
A similar program on Linux (or, I guess many platforms) is Zeal:<p><a href="https://zealdocs.org/" rel="nofollow">https://zealdocs.org/</a><p>It's alright.
I'm happy to see that he was able to make it open source and under GPL3. I wonder if the developer will be responding to issues and pull requests, since those are open for this repo.
Oh, lord, I hate to be That Guy, but it looks like Bogdan has included an older version of Gus Mueller's FMDB library <<a href="https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb>" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb></a> but has failed to include a copy of the MIT License that governs them. Probably just an oversight, but...
I'd never seen this before, but it sounds a lot like `zeal`, the desktop app <a href="https://zealdocs.org/" rel="nofollow">https://zealdocs.org/</a><p>Upside of Zeal, is that desktop is usually more comfortable for developers.
Nice that he did opensourced it.<p>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.
This is not related to Dash cryptocurrency I suppose?<p><a href="https://www.dash.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.dash.org/</a><p>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.<p>1: <a href="https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DOC/Download+-+Install+-+Guide" rel="nofollow">https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DOC/Download+-+In...</a>
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?<p>How about we just ignore him and don't continue to reward him with attention?