Automated user documentation system for Android

Documenting android projects and synchronizing the help pages with the current stage of the project is a time consuming task, especially for complex projects developed by larger teams. Keeping the website of the project synchronized with the current development is even more difficult, since usually the two components are maintained by different people or teams. This paper proposes an automated documentation system based on a wiki that is filled by contributors, and a software system that extracts the info from the wiki and builds a set of html help pages that are incorporated automatically in the project with every new version. The documentation system is not project specific, and offers the following advantages over maintaining the help pages by hand: the help system automatically reflects the current content of the wiki; the help system of the app is independent of the network; every version of the software keeps a set of help pages specific to the development stage of that version. The implementation uses python and is available as open source.