Haiku documentations

Haiku is proposing offline and online documentations depending on the area covered.

Documents for new joiners, for those who would like to have a detailed overview of the system, or for developers, this article will give you the shortcuts for each.

If you are new to Haiku, or if you have never opened these documents, I advise you to look at each of them.

They contain interesting information on the system :

Title	Description	Location
Welcome	Welcome to Haiku!	/boot/system/documentation/welcome/welcome_en.html
Quick Tour	Haiku Quick Tour	/boot/system/documentation/welcome/en/quicktour.html
User Guide	The Haiku User’s Guide	/boot/system/documentation/userguide/en/contents.html

Note : copy/paste the location into WebPositive to have a quick access to these offline HTML documents.

If you are a developer or a graphic designer, you can check the below documents about the API, but also the guidelines about the icon design or the coding.

Most of these documents are online only:

Title	Description	Location
Haiku Book	The Haiku API Book	https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/api/
BeBook	The BeBook API	/boot/system/documentation/BeBook/index.html
Icon Guidelines	Guidelines for designing icons	https://www.haiku-os.org/development/icon-guidelines
Coding Guidelines	Guidelines for coding	https://www.haiku-os.org/development/coding-guidelines
Haiku Internals	Internals documentations	https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/develop/
Github apps sources	Haiku apps sources	https://github.com/haiku/haiku/tree/master/src/apps
Haiku Porter	Haiku Porter build recipe	https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/wiki/HaikuPorter-BuildRecipes

Note : the Haiku Book is online only compared to the BeBook because it's not yet finalized.

The github apps sources can be of great interest, because you will discover how they interact with the Haiku API.

The Haiku Internals area is containing various information about the kernel, the drivers, the package management, the kits, ... I let you discover in details this one.

Any other online or offline documentation you would like to share ?

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