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by nkjoep 3504 days ago
I stopped using Dash long time ago.

http://devdocs.io/ is enough for me.

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Spoiler: devdocs.io is another website that tries to be an app and fails.

Dash is basically a simple shell around various HTML docs and still has better UX.

I really like the native Mac app UI of Dash, but devdocs.io's design is so much better.
Is there a way to open devdocs with a shortcut like Dash?
They suggest this plugins (http://devdocs.io/about):

- Chrome web app

- Sublime Text plugin

- Atom plugin

- Brackets extension

- Emacs Package

Can't beat using Alfred to search Dash from anywhere
Yup, just make a custom search for "http://devdocs.io/#q={query}".
Seconded, you can even build your own docs super easily
Needs a PopClip plugin.
PopClip is awesome. Doesn't get enough love on here. It has a lot of parallels to the new Touch Bar, will be cool to see if he can do anything to integrate with it.
It doesn't have Swift or Objective C unless I'm missing it
one of the killer dash features for me is how easy it is to install javadoc/scaladoc/etc documentation for 3rd party libraries
Is there a version that has android & apple ios dev docs?
Not sure about android but in the latest xcode documentation was built in so you can't even add them to dash anymore.