AppCenter Spotlight: quickDocs

Quickly Read Developer Docs

On elementary OS? Hit the button to get quickDocs.

quickDocs is a lightweight reader for developer documentation, made by Matt Harris. I chatted with Matt a bit about quickDocs and his experiences with elementary OS, AppCenter, and AppCenter Dashboard.

Meet Matt Harris

Matt is a student in the UK, and loves playing music in his spare time. “I play guitar, sax, and piano. They act as a bit of a break from studying,” he told me. In between studying and making music, he also spends his time using and contributing to open source projects like elementary OS. “I’ve been using elementary OS for just under a year I think. I settled on it after hopping between Arch and Ubuntu in the end because of how polished it was.”

The idea for quickDocs itself actually came when Matt was looking at the elementary developer documentation. “I was inspired to make quickDocs after coming across the developer.elementary.io website,” he explained. “After I saw how straightforward it was to publish an app on AppCenter, I started thinking up ideas.” Then it hit him. “One of the main tools I use while programming are developer docs, so I thought it would be perfect to make a native app instead of keeping loads of browser tabs open.” Thus, quickDocs was born.

The Journey to 2.0