Netrunner Mobile Random Card is a web app (okay, more like a single web page) that I’m working on that is designed to function similarly to the Netrunner Random Card browser extension for Chrome. It does a couple of things differently, though:

• It is designed for mobile. The Chrome extension doesn’t work on my mobile browser of choice (Brave), so this is designed to do that on my phone.
• Currently it picks a card at random from the entire cardpool, but I’m working on setting it up so that it will only show cards currently in standard. This could take a while to implement since I’m learning JavaScript as I go and I’m trying to do it through the API rather than hard coding it, so that I don’t have to update it every time a new set or banlist is released.

Without further ado, you can find the project at netrunner.pawnstorm.net.

Notes

• If you’re wondering what the heck Netrunner is, you might want to take a look at my Netrunner New Player Guide which attempts to provide a brief introduction to the game.
• Although this is designed for mobile, since it is loading full-size card images, it has the potential to use quite a bit of data (5+ mb / load), so be warned if you spend most of your time on mobile data rather than wifi. Once I get it to filter down to just cards in standard, I may try to create a lightweight text-only version. However, since one of the reasons I created this was because I’m relatively new and want to get better at recognizing cards while playing on jinteki.net, this won’t be a priority for a while.
• This app consists of only a single page, everything else it gets from the netrunnerDB API, you can download the page and save it on your device to save a bit of data/time.
• Unfortunately, Brave on mobile (as awesome as it is otherwise) doesn’t let me set the default page to load for a new tab, so the hack is to replace the launch shortcut with a link to this (or just to put a link to this somewhere where I can easily use it) which will open the site up in a new tab in Brave.
• Huge thanks to netrunnerDB for creating the database that this is based on. None of this would be possible without them.

Version History

• 0.3 The image should now link to the displayed card. Now works well enough that I can start working on filtering down to just standard-legal cards.
• 0.2 Getting there. Images should always load now. Also, need to make the image link to the proper record on NRDB.
• 0.1 It (kinda) works! Unfortunately about half of the cards in NRDB have a different image source, so I’ll need to figure that out.