This is an app designed to provide a better-looking and more user-friendly interface for reading the United States Code, the indexed legal code of the United State of America. The Law Revision Counsel (LRC) serves the Code at uscode.house.gov, although the website is (in my arrogant opinion) not beautiful.
All text of the US Code in this app is taken from the LRC's XML format of the Code, hosted at the above link. The raw XML files bundled in the app are not original: they have been split into chapters and filtered to remove unnecessary tags. Doing so improves loading times and reduces the app's size. Again, the actual text is not changed, bar any small formatting errors.
All tools to build the XML files are included in the source. To turn the files from uscode.house.gov into those included in this app, download the full XML .zip file, extract them to a folder, and copy autodo.sh, cleanusc.sh, and dosomething.sh into the same folder. Run bash autodo.sh, and it do everything required. The build process depends on xml_grep, xml_split, and xmlstarlet.
Inquiries, comments, or literally anything at all can be sent to ASeltz156@gmail.com
This app is licensed under the MIT License.