Homebrew Help building the 3DS Internet Browser

[h4xthisacc0unt]

Hi, I see there is a lot of homebrew applications that doesn't have a proper interface, I also noticed that the actual 3DS Internet Browser code was open source. My idea is to help develop a framework so everybody can release their apps with a web interface with little effort, (something like Electron for the PC which has an embed webkit).

I just downloaded the source code from the official Nintendo site but it doesn't seems to be any kind of documentation or building process (I'm not even sure is the full source code), there is some code to build the libraries which I already managed to build form arm, but I'm still unsure how to compile them into a 3dsx file.

Am I missing something?, is it even possible to build a browser with the code provided?, My other idea was to take the wii homebrew internet browser code and try to port it to the 3ds.

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[LiamTheHackermon]

xD

that is only part of the code idiot

 

[h4xthisacc0unt]

xD that is only part of the code idiot

Actually I did said...

(I'm not even sure is the full source code)

But I guess those files should somehow help writing a Homebrew Internet Browser...

Another Idea I just had is to make a special Browser launcher that boots a small server and from there it could execute the commands for the app, I think this would be easier, but still I would like to give full access to the developer, so it feels like an actual 3DS app.

 

[ih8ih8sn0w]

I think the issue with homebrew apps not having a real UI is that it is painful to design and implement in general. It would probably take twice as long, if not longer, to release an app with a UI then without. Some things (like decrypt9) have custom UIs because someone else created it, while someone else worked on features. It just isn't really worth the effort most of the time. As for the browser source, that is probably for web developers use, so it would unlikely contain data for the UI.