Portable freebsd manpages app

[Charlie Brown]

I have an idea but I'm not skilled n off to build it.
My ideas is to make an application for android that fetch man.freebsd.org and render it nicely to read on the go...

how can this become a reality?

 

[atax1a]

the existing man.freebsd.org is a CGI script. you could probably get better mileage out of hacking on that to improve rendering on mobile devices, instead of making an "app" out of it

 

[Charlie Brown]

I can't build the app but I can install them on termux!

1)
mkdir freebsd-man
2)
cd freebsd-man/
3)
RELEASE=15.0-RELEASE
4)
ARCH=amd64
5)
wget https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/$ARCH/$RELEASE/base.txz
6)
tar -xJf base.txz ./usr/share/man
7)
export MANPATH=$(pwd)/usr/share/man:${MANPATH}
8)
man man

9)

 

[Charlie Brown]

There is also this app
https://apkpure.com/freebsd-doc/com.liangyaotian.android.manual

safe: checked with total virus

its well made but unmaintained, I did reverse engineered the apk but I don't know yet what to do with the files, if someone want them I can pass them out.

also wrote to the dev asking to have the sources but no response.

 

[atax1a]

we just don't see why this simple task has to be an "app", what value is added to appifying man pages that cannot be had by improving the cgi script?

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

You could do as it's been suggested by the other poster and wrap it as an app using for example:

https://cordova.apache.org/

 

[Charlie Brown]

You could do as it's been suggested by the other poster and wrap it as an app using for example:

https://cordova.apache.org/

I'll check it out for sure. Thanks for the heads up appreciate. As for the other user he bring nothing to the subject. Hate when they just give their opinion like if we give a damn without even actually helping at all like at the bare minimum giving a simple link for what you're talking about. :

man.cgi « cgi « en « content « website - doc - FreeBSD documentation tree

cgit.freebsd.org

I mean if you take the time to answer in a community support forum but you don't help and just give your opinion which wasn't asked for better to just don't answer at all this way you'll reduce the noise on the forum.