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:

• [x] Set up RN project (Start with Android for now)
• [ ] Get hyperdrive running in RN
  • [x] Get node builtin modules working rn-nodeify
• [x] Get hyperdrive replicating with dat-gateway through websockets
• [ ] Make a viewer similar to dat-js-example
  • [x] Load Dat from URL bar
  • [x] View with some default URLs to visit
  • [x] Directory listing
  • [x] View text files in a Text element
  • [x] Image viewing
  • [x] Markdown support through some component
  • [x] HTML viewier with a webview (Won't support relative URLs or dat://protocol)
  • [x] Make it actually work on the device without remote debugging 😭 Thanks @mafintosh!
• [x] Release to playstore
• [x] Get discovery-swarm to work with RN in the JS thread
  • [x] dat-dns
  • [x] Identify the node modules that need to run in RN
  • [x] Use discovery-swarm instead of gateway
    • [x] Test dns tracker functionality
    • [ ] Test DHT (Bootstraps into the DHT, doesn't find peers)
    • [ ] Test MDNS
• [ ] Support dat protocol as a browser
  • [x] Find how to support custom protocols in Webview (Android)
    • [x] shouldInterceptRequest
    • [x] Add a registerStreamProtocol API based on electron's protocol API
    • [x] Follow guide for customizing react-native-webview
    • [x] Create Java ReactNativeProtocolViewManager
      • [x] Custom WebViewClient to intercept requests
      • [x] Extend RNCWebView commandMap with commands for sending responses
      • [x] Generate events for intercepting requests
      • [x] Add props for protocol scheme list
    • [x] Create ProtocolWebView JS API
      • [x] static registerProtocol and unregisterProtocol
      • [x] pass list of protocols to native props
      • [x] add an event listener for intercepted requests to use the protocol handlers
    • [x] Test it out with a dummy protocol
  • [x] Update fork of react-native-webview that supports intercepting URLs
  • [x] Create DatWebview which adds support for dat:// protocol
  • [x] 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.