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Hyperledger Aries Cloud Agent Python (ACA-Py) is a foundation for building decentralized identity applications and services running in non-mobile environments.
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Which mobile agent framework is recommended to work with aca-py as the mediator agent? #1794

Closed github-account-0x00 closed 2 years ago

github-account-0x00 commented 2 years ago

I know this place is for issues but I'm having trouble finding a working open source mobile agent framework that integrates with iOS swift and android kotlin that can talk to aca-py as the mediator

swcurran commented 2 years ago

AFAIK, there are no open source Swift/Kotlin Aries mobile frameworks. I know there are some that are proprietary, and there has been talk of some of those being made open source, but that hasn't happened yet. Existing options are:

If you are not planning to use AnonCreds verifiable credential format and Indy ledgers, you can look at Aries Framework Go, which might have a relatively easy path to native mobile wallets. But I'm not aware of any mobile capabilities in that.

Hope that helps. Feel free to reopen and/or ask more specific questions.

github-account-0x00 commented 2 years ago

Do you have any experience in building the react native or xamarin code? I tried building the react native but experienced some issues with it which I highlighted here: https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native/issues/347

Also, what is your opinion of aries vcx?

swcurran commented 2 years ago

Our team is working heavily on AFJ/React Native and just recently started using it (sort of) in the wild - e.g. with real users. The team has created an excellent build/publish process that allows for merging the https://github.com/hyperledger/aries-mobile-agent-react-native code with ours to produce a publishable artifact. That allows for changes to be made in the right place (e.g. in Bifold or our instance), maximizing the collaboration. There are others doing that, still others that have done a "fork and forget" with the aries-mobile-agent-react-native repo. It absolutely can be built and works pretty nicely!

The Aries MAX (Xamarin) has a smaller user base and is evolving slower, held up mostly because many devs aren't a fan of Xamarin.

I know that there is a lot of activity going on with Aries VCX, and the team behind it is excellent. That said, I don't know that much about using it as the basis for a mobile agent. I think (not certain) that a variation of the code base is used as the foundation of the Evernym wallet, but don't know how much cross-over there is.

darapich92 commented 1 year ago

Hi @swcurran, I saw BC-Mobile-Wallet https://github.com/bcgov/bc-wallet-mobile on github. do you think that it provides functionalities like aries mobile agent react native?

swcurran commented 1 year ago

BC Wallet is built on top of Aries Mobile Agent React Native, so definitely includes all of the features. It also shows how to build on top of Aries Mobile Agent React Native without forking the wallet and making it hard to both get updates from, and contribute back to, Aries Mobile Agent React Native. Being able to do that is a big win for everyone!

darapich92 commented 1 year ago

@swcurran thank you very much for the information.