Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash instantly searches offline documentation sets for 200+ APIs, 100+ cheat sheets and more. You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included. Oct 27, 2021 Dash – API Documentation Browser 6.1.0. October 27, 2021. Developer Tools. Dash is an API documentation browser and code snippet manager. Dash helps you store snippets of code, as well as instantly search and browse documentation for almost any API you might use (for a full list, see the screenshots). Audio and Video Delivery. We can deliver audio and video on the web in a number of ways, ranging from 'static' media files to adaptive live streams. This article is intended as a starting point for exploring the various delivery mechanisms of web based media and compatibility with popular browsers.
Zeal is billed as a simple offline documentation browser. It offers easy access to a huge database of documentation, API manuals, and code snippets.
The main purpose of the software is to enable you to have reference documentation at your fingertips. Let's see how it fares. Iclip clipboard recorder & clipart manager 5 5 1.
Installation
We tested Zeal on Ubuntu, but other good Linux distributions are available (this sounds like we're writing for the BBC).
Zeal can be installed through the Ubuntu Software Store. But it's just as easy to open a terminal window and install with the command:
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Zeal is Qt-based cross-platform software. Besides support for a variety of Linux distributions, it runs under FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, and Windows.
By default there are no docsets installed. But it's easy to install and update them. Click Tools, Docsets. There's a tab that lists the available docsets. There's 200+ docsets to choose from, provided by Dash (an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager). And it's also possible to generate your own docsets or download them from other places by adding a feed URL.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Summary
Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. It stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 200+ APIs, 100+ cheat sheets and more. It helps you keep all the APIs, from the different languages you are using, in a central location. Boxy svg 3 27 06.
The only problem is that it only runs on Mac OS. However, there is a solution to that, or even better, two. Velocity and Zeal which both are using the same docsets provided by Dash.
The first one is Velocity, which provides offline access to over 150 API documentation sets (powered by Dash for Mac OS).
A very nice feature of Velocity is that there are plug-ins for the most popular IDEs and editors. Click on the link below to get the one for the development environment you are using.
The second one is Zeal, which is also an offline documentation browser for software developers, available on Windows and Linux.
While Dash gives access to docsets contributed by users, Zeal does not currently support searching in user contributed docsets. However, you may find handy the following app Zeal User Contributions Repository, as it gives you an easy way to install those missing API docsets.
To install a docset in Zeal:
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- search for the docset you are looking for,
- copy the .xml URL, open Zeal, click on Tools -> Docsets… -> Installed -> Add feed,
- paste the URL and click OK
To add the corresponding icons, download both icons (icon.png and icon@2x.png) inside the docset folder next to the Contents folder and the meta.json file.
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- In Windows by default C:Users%username%AppDataLocalZealZealdocsets.docset
- In Linux by default ~/local/share/zeal/docsets
