BathroomReader

The Android app shell for BathroomReader — a Capacitor wrapper, not a native rewrite. It loads the live site (https://bathroomreader.org) inside a WebView so it can be packaged and installed like a normal Android app.

There's no app-specific UI or logic here. All actual content — jokes, news, podcasts, the book reader — lives on the website itself, which isn't part of this repo. This project only exists to produce an installable .apk.

Structure

• www/ — placeholder loading page; Capacitor points the WebView at the configured remote URL instead of bundled assets
• capacitor.config.json — app id, name, and the remote URL it loads
• package.json — Capacitor CLI/core/android dependencies

Building

npm install
npx cap add android   # first time only
npx cap sync
npx cap open android

Then build/run from Android Studio as usual.

Using this to wrap your own site

This is a generic thin-WebView-wrapper pattern, not anything specific to BathroomReader — feel free to fork it and point it at your own site instead. Everything site-specific lives in capacitor.config.json:

{
  "appId": "org.bathroomreader.app",
  "appName": "BathroomReader",
  "webDir": "www",
  "server": {
    "url": "https://bathroomreader.org",
    "androidScheme": "https"
  }
}

• appId — your app's unique identifier (reverse-domain style, e.g. com.example.myapp)
• appName — the name shown under the app's icon
• server.url — the site you want the app to load

Change those three values to your own, then follow the Building steps above. www/index.html never actually renders (Capacitor loads server.url instead), so there's nothing else to edit unless you want a real offline fallback page.