Datmobile (download)

A mobile app for viewing Dat Archives. Drive all around the P2P web with your phone. Pronounced like the famous hero's car.

Status:

I've run into performance issues with keeping the Dat logic within the React-Native thread.

Protocol interception seems to be working, but I'll be putting this on hold until I can refactor it to use nodejs-mobile.

Plans:

• Set up RN project (Start with Android for now)
• Get hyperdrive running in RN
  • Get node builtin modules working rn-nodeify
• Get hyperdrive replicating with dat-gateway through websockets
• Make a viewer similar to dat-js-example
  • Load Dat from URL bar
  • View with some default URLs to visit
  • Directory listing
  • View text files in a Text element
  • Image viewing
  • Markdown support through some component
  • HTML viewier with a webview (Won't support relative URLs or dat://protocol)
  • Make it actually work on the device without remote debugging Thanks @mafintosh!
• Release to playstore
• Get discovery-swarm to work with RN in the JS thread
  • dat-dns
  • Identify the node modules that need to run in RN
  • Use discovery-swarm instead of gateway
    • Test dns tracker functionality
    • Test DHT (Bootstraps into the DHT, doesn't find peers)
    • Test MDNS
• Support dat protocol as a browser
  • Find how to support custom protocols in Webview (Android)
    • shouldInterceptRequest
    • Add a registerStreamProtocol API based on electron's protocol API
    • Follow guide for customizing react-native-webview
    • Create Java ReactNativeProtocolViewManager
      • Custom WebViewClient to intercept requests
      • Extend RNCWebView commandMap with commands for sending responses
      • Generate events for intercepting requests
      • Add props for protocol scheme list
    • Create ProtocolWebView JS API
      • static registerProtocol and unregisterProtocol
      • pass list of protocols to native props
      • add an event listener for intercepted requests to use the protocol handlers
    • Test it out with a dummy protocol
  • Update fork of react-native-webview that supports intercepting URLs
  • Create DatWebview which adds support for dat:// protocol
  • Make browser UI with the new webview, replacing the viewer functionality
  • Support version portion of dat:// URL
• Keep track of history and view / clear it
• DatArchive API
• Extract WebView into own library
• Extract Dat mechanics into react-native-dat
• Extras!
  • experimental.datPeers API
  • Add Blocklist for trackers and ads
• Perormance improvements
  • Close repos when they're not in use
  • Don't upload to discovery-swarm while on battery
  • Download bookmarked site updates when charging and not on metered wifi
  • Keep an LRU of archies to seed in the background
  • Prioritize local network over internet
  • DNS caching

Contributing:

• Changes are very much welcome!
• Please open an issue if you have an idea for a big change before doing a PR.
• Please use the "standard" code style.

Building

• npm install
• npm run nodeify
• react-native link react-native-randombytes
• react-native link react-native-tcp
• react-native link react-native-udp
• react-native link react-native-os
• react-native link react-native-webview
• react-native run-android

Privacy:

Datmobile does not collect or save any of your personal data, or share it with third parties.