We are now working together to have our Android Wallet App, and it will be functional very soon.
The BountyI have first suggested to our community (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423339.msg7195903#msg7195903 ) a payment of at least 1,000,000ANI for our first fine working Android Wallet App, but now, as our balance is a little bigger, I propose to offer
2,000,000ANI from our Crowdfund balance to the First Animecoin Android Wallet App: an amount fair enough for the works involved, to be paid with the approval of the delivered working App. The community must reach a consensus about it, and I ask that you all please share your opinions.
Also it is VERY IMPORTANT that the community participates in testing and reviewing the App to be received.
I will also pay 200,000ANI from my personal Giveaway balance. And, of course, I am sure that many others will want to tip the developer.
The FeaturesThe security features for this Android Wallet are very important. The ideal is that the wallet user be possible to choose a password to encrypt the private key/wallet.dat. This is necessary to avoid hackers/trojans eventually stealing the wallet balance.
Stealth transactions would be great, but not necessary at the moment: Maybe we could leave this part for a later update, after we develop more on the steatlh transactions (have a look at darkcoin community, they have been discussing it a lot).
It is also very important that the wallet has got QR-code reader/generator feature, in order to make it easier to deal with addresses.
A nice feature would be to allow user customisation of the wallet, so that each individual user could "import" the wallpaper or any image of his/her preference (I, for example, would love to have my favourite anime picture as the "skin" to my Animecoin wallet. In this subject, I was wondering if it would be possible to put a generic cover pic (like this
http://www.mfa.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/showcase_2/hero_images/21.6765.jpg , or this
http://globerove.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Traditional-Japanese-Art.jpg , or this
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t2/AndresTheCunning/Swords%20in%20the%20Moon/800px-Battle_of_Kawanakajima.jpg, for instance ) and give the individual users the option to customise their own wallet with their own preferred pic (because most will want to put the pic of the anime or manga they love). This solution will have the advantage that we would run no risks with copyright issues.
I request that the community participates with other suggestions for features to our Android Wallet App in development.
What We Already Have by NowThanks to testz, we already have the modified
https://github.com/HashEngineering/quarkcoinj acording to Animecoin network and it is now published at
https://github.com/testzcrypto/animecoinjIt contains all parameters for a network and Animecoin hash function in java and in C compiled by Android NDK (/libs).
testz has succesfully compiled it. It doesn't pass all unit tests but this is fine as he said.
Now what we need, it seems, is to modify existing Quark wallet
https://github.com/HashEngineering/quarkcoin-wallet for Anime and use my animecoinj library (it's no more necessary to deal with Animecoin network).
Now that it was possible to compile the animecoinj successfully, the procedure nearly identical to getting animecoin-wallet to compile. The main thing that makes it harder is that animecoin-wallet will depend on animecoinj. as long as the wallet/pom.xml file is edited to change the requirement for quarkcoinj to animecoinj, then it should compile fine (without the unit tests) with maven.
That's it my friends. I am waiting here to hear from the community now.
Let's work togeter in this.
Ganbatte!
Hi animecoin community, I'm currently working on the android wallet for animecoin and it is progressing well. hopefully in a few weeks we will have the animecoin wallet up and running for people to use. It would be nice if I could have some input on what features you would like to see in the wallet.
ganbattekudasai!!!
About the Android Wallet features.
I think, the first thing we must have in mind is that most of our new users are those who do not use yet any other cryptocurrency (the "otaku" community in general), and will possibly be willing to try it just because Animecoin is related to something they love (manga/anime/japanese culture/games). This is an advantage, because differently from the usual cryptocurrecies user, these new users do not see the Altcoins just as a "pump and dump" thing: they have heard about Bitcoin, but cannot afford it, and so they surelly will want something affordable, useful and, of course, easy to use. In general, they are young people, and are very sound "computer literates", so their adaptation will not be a problem.
For sure, safety is an important concern. The usual cryptocurrency user masters all the safety issues, but the new users normally don't. We don't want them loosing their ANIs because of lost "wallet.dat", or "change adresses". It would be nice if our Animecoin wallet also educates and informs the users about all these important topics.
An important feature would be the wallet stimulating the use of a good encryption password. Also an easy wallet backup/recovery feature (using encrypted paperwallet or file - more or less like "Mycelium BTC android wallet"), stimulating the backup to be done as soon as the wallet is first used.
About the "stealth mode" (as featured by Darkcoin), I believe it will be an inexorable characteristic of all the cryptocurrencies in a near future. It does not have to be 100% anonymous - we do not want to fight the NSA
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but some privacy is really necessary. As its known, everything we do with our BTCs is there for anyone to see and track at the Blockchain. It's like having an online open record of everything we do with our money, our credit cards, our bank accounts... no one wants that. So, the level of privacy we (normal users) need is one that avoids such super-easy-open-acces to our financial/shopping/trading habits. But this is a future feature to be implemented with time.
Anyway, we could start it simple, and, with time, make improvements and corrections.
