Major Description
Mentors
- Devansh Agarwal
- Shivansh Tiwari
Overview & Objectives
We provide a reference mobile wallet application frameworks for consumers and merchants that has been developed by our Google Summer of Code interns from 2017 to 2020. The mobile wallet provides an extensible mobile wallet framework to support the basic use cases of a mobile wallet as documented in the Level One Project mobile wallet requirements. This extensible framework should support both merchant and client use cases as well as be capable of integrating with a Fineract or Fineract CN back-end.
Over time, we would like Fineract to be more generically a wallet management system and this reference application framework is a powerful tool to support that.
Currently there is no reference mobile wallet app that natively consumes APIs from Fineract CN. The current wallet utilizes a wrapper around Fineract APIs to facilitate such a connection.
Description
The initial mobile wallet framework along with 2 reference apps, PixieCollect and MifosPay, were developed in 2017. In 2019, these functionalities were extended further by Shivansh including including improving user experience and redesigning the app, support for Kotlin, integration with two Mojaloop transaction flows via the Paymeht Hub, adding improving Deeplinks, support for standing instructions and more well-rounded support for merchant transactions.
In 2020, Devansh Aggarwal added complete support for standing instructions, integrated with Fineract CN for core use cases by mapping Fineract back-office APIs to Fineract CN APIs, added multi-theme support, completed integration with Payment Hub EE for two use cases, added support for Hover, and converted Java code to Kotlin.
In 2021 we aim to complete a stand-alone MVP of a mobile wallet on top of the Fineract CN back-end. Once the requisite APIs are made available in Fineract CN, a new reference app will be built to consume these APIs. If there's enough time, some other major work beyond building the base Fineract CN mobile wallet app will be Payment Hub integration and improving peer to peer and merchant transactions (initiating transactions to merchants, maintaining history of users with which recent transactions took place, adding deeplink support for unique payment links, payment related notifications using FCM). Payment Hub and Mojaloop integration will allow us to make payments across tenants and fineract deployments. A very basic integration of payment hub with mobile wallet is already in place for Fineract but that will need to be extended to fully support all use cases on Fineract CN.
Helpful Skills
Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Spring, OpenJPA, Rest, Kotlin
Impact
By providing an extensible mobile wallet framework, allow partners a complete reference stack of back and front-end applications to offer digital financial services to clients.
Other Resources
2020 Mobile Wallet Progress: https://gist.github.com/devansh-299/e2041c07d9ab55a747391951e9090df4
Mobile Wallet Framework: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom