Mentors

@Chinmay Kulkarni @Shashank Priyadarshi

Length

Large - 350 hours

Category

Mobile - Android SDK | Core Development

Overview & Objectives

The goal of this project is to upgrade our Android field officer application to its latest dependencies and to rewrite the application to consume the recently developed Android SDK written using coroutines. The Android client will be the first of the Mifos mobile apps which consume the SDK, reducing repeated network layer code in mobile apps, improving developer experience, and making it easier to migrate to newer versions of Apache Fineract 1.x.
and as well as student would be working on migrating xml to jetpack compose to support multi-module MVVM architecture and adding new features with jetpack compose.
This year we are totally focused on migrating to Jetpack compose and support KMP (Kotlin Multi-Platform)

Description

In 2024, The student will be working on implementing the following things:

1. Update the Android client to latest dependencies

2. Rewrite Network layer of Android client to consume SDK using coroutines instead of RxJava implemented code.

3. Migrate xml implemented features to jetpack compose

4. Implement multi-module MVVM

5. Add kotlin multi-platform support.

6. Write appropiate unit and integration tests.

7. Update CI/CD to build APK and analyses code quality

8. Implemented Playstore release github action pipeline

9. Integrate google playstore API for better and faster release flow.

10. Update corresponding documentation for building the app.

Helpful Skills

Android, Kotlin, Jetpack compose, navigation-compose, MVVM, coroutines, Flow, multi-module architecture.

Impact

1. High performance using jetpack compose

2. Clean code and easy understandable code because of multi-module and coroutines implementation.

3. Overall stability by increased testing coverage through a more stable and error-free codebase.

4. Improved developer experience through faster build time.

5. More seamless release management and upstream contribution

6. Reduction of time to upgrade

Other Resources

QA & Testing - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=195730042

Github

https://github.com/openMF/android-client

https://github.com/apache/fineract

https://github.com/openMF/fineract-client

https://github.com/openMF/fineract-android-sdk

Mentors

@Aleksandar Vidakovic

Length

Large - 350 hours

Category

Platform | Core Development | Infrastructure

Overview & Objectives

In 2023 we have made substantial progress in implementing a baseline of behavior-driven tests across the platform using the Cucumber framework. The goal of this project is to expand unit testing coverage across the Fineract platform. Currently most of our automated testing is only through integration tests which take a long time to run and aren’t consistent. Cucumber is being implemented as the unit test framework and this project would focus on converting existing integration tests to unit test and writing new unit tests.

Goals are to increase testing coverage of core modules, reduce run-time at build of completing tests, and implementing some automated reporting to show testing coverage.

Description

The student will be working on implementing the following things:

1. Collaborate with mentor to implement Cucumber framework

2. Collaborate with mentor to implement test containers

3. Refine test data set and scripts

4. Convert high priority integration tests to unit tests

5. Write unit tests for key functional modules

6. Implement reporting to show test coverage.

Helpful Skills

Cucumber, Java, Spring

Impact

1. More frequent & higher quality releases

2. Improved developer experience and ease of submitting pull requests.

Other Resources

Github

https://github.com/apache/fineract

Mentors

@Rajan Maurya @Avinash Vijayvargiya

Length

Large - 350 hours

Category

Mobile - Mifos X | Core Development

Overview & Objectives

2024 development will focus on refining our current Mobile Wallet to be a strong reference implementation of feature-rich and secure mobile wallet application for G2P use cases. While our mobile wallet is a powerful tool for all fintechs and financial institutions, we want to powerfully and simply demonstrate the ability for governments to disburse G2P Payments to highly functional mobile wallet and then be able to transact with that wallet by paying for bills, sending transfers, and paying for goods and services via merchants. We provide a reference mobile wallet application for consumers and merchants that has been developed by our Google Summer of Code interns from 2017 to 2023. 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 back-end

Over time, we would like Mifos X to be more generically a wallet management system and this reference application is a powerful tool to support that. 

Description

The initial mobile wallet framework along with 2 reference apps, PixieCollect and MifosPay, were developed in 2017. Later we decided to continue with MifosPay application only which as mentioned uses the mobile wallet framework.

In 2019, these functionalities were extended further by Shivansh 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 further 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, added support for Hover, and converted Java code to Kotlin (in progress). For more details refer this

In 2021, Kinar Sharma, worked on developing a new multiplatform mobile wallet application using Kotlin multi-platform. This new application consumes FineractCN APIs and is built upon clean architecture. Kinar completed the data, domain and presentation layer (only for Android) for usecases available in FineractCN.

In 2022, Prashant Singh continued to evolve the app.

In 2023, Rachit focused on refining the architecture, streamlining the design and implementing some of the G2P use cases.

In 2024, we are targeting to make production-ready our cases for G2P, update dependencies, consume more uniformly our SDKs fix pending issues and introduce new features. Functional enhancements include:

• Integrate latest version of Payment Hub EE

• Integrate Mifos' notifications framework to provide support for usecases like merchant request to pay.

• Incorporate Mifos' new design library

• Migrate xml to Jetpack compose

• Basic implementation of multi-platform

• Implemented Playstore release github action pipeline

• Update wallet framework to be make use of Mifos' Android SDK

• Complete migration of Java code to Kotlin

• Improving the security framework to integrate more seamlessly with middlewares, API gateway, and identity management software

• Exploring proof of concept architecture or redesigns to align with movements like the Open Wallet Foundation.
  
  

Helpful Skills

Android development, Java, Kotlin, Jetpack compose, Rest, SQL, Git

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

2023 Mobile Wallet Final Report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xHDVzmxuBj5KA0vHiJS_UGrs0Zb6IrpqwRmSdW3uExM/edit#heading=h.h4y8eq18ezr9

2020 Mobile Wallet Progress: https://gist.github.com/devansh-299/e2041c07d9ab55a747391951e9090df4

Mobile Wallet Framework: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom | Slack

See https://openmf.github.io/mobileapps.github.io/

Mentors

@Aleksandar Vidakovic @Victor Romero

Length

Large - 350 hours

Category

Fineract Platform | Modules

Overview & Objectives

Users of Mifos and Fineract have long had a need to have greater control and flexibility over creating loan and customer onboarding workflows that incorporate internal processes/steps as well processes involving external systems. This project would center around creating an external integration with a workflow engine such as Flowable or jBPM using the Fineract REST API as the glue. The Fineract Client library enforces the contract between the workflow engine and Fineract. Fineract Client and its REST API as the glue. The result would be a UI-driven workflow engine to allow non-technical users to define these new custom workflows where they could drag and drop the different steps of the process. 

Description

Assumptions:

• BPMN should be adopted as a standard so which can make the workflow engine independent of the technology stack. 

• BPMN editors allow end users to sketch the workflow and generate a machine readable and executable output. 

• Workflow actions or business logic would be written in Java as part of Fineract so adapters will be need to be created on the workflow engine to execute actions on our side. 

• External processes would be sub-flows that could be used like lego bricks and included in the parent workflow context. 

Steps:

• Intern would select a workflow engine to integrate with and then build adapters to trigger and transfer form BPMN form data into specific Fineract REST API calls. 

• Currently business logic such as creating a customer is triggered by an API call in Fineract. For this project, the intern would define a BPMN form with all the data that is needed which could be defined as a human task. Proceeding through each step triggers an adapter that transforms the generic BPMN form data into specific Fineract REST API calls

• Intern would go through the entire REST API building these adapters to trigger transformation of BPMN into Fineract REST API callsCurrently when creating a customer, API by API, the intern would define 

• Once all the calls in Fineract have been transformed, the integration could provide for triggering any external  customer-specific action/workflow/API call/ system integration

Helpful Skills

Java, BPMN

Impact

UI-Driven interface based on BPMN standard to allow for non-technical users to define customer onboarding and application workflows via a drag and drop interface.

Other Resources

https://github.com/flowable

https://www.jbpm.org/

https://www.bpmn.org/

Mentors

@Chinmay Kulkarni @Devansh Aggarwal @raul.sibaja

Length

Large - 350 hours

Category

Mobile - Mifos X | Core Development | Infrastructure

Overview & Objectives

In 2022, Rahul Gill, created and completed the first iteration of our UI library for our mobile apps. Our suite of customer-facing mobile applications include our mobile wallet framework, and mobile banking apps for Fineract 1.x and Fineract CN. These are designed to serve as reference implementations for demonstration purposes but also to act as secure and robust starting dough that can be extended and enhanced and white-labeled.

With the move towards more digital financial services, these reference solutions are ever more important and critical and must appear highly polished, clean, and professional. We are working with a designer to provide a set of clean, consistent and professional UI designs and workflows to implement across our customer-facing apps.

This project would focus on implementing these new designs across the customer-facing apps providing a consistent and familiar look and feel. It will build off of efforts in 2020 and 2021 implementing the UI designs previously proposed during GCI. 

Across all our mobile apps, there are common screens and workflows with a lot of redundant and inconsistent design and development from scratch. The creation of a UI library of common shared components and design standards and guidelines would enable the following:

• Improve developer experience and ease of development

• Consistent look and feel of UIs for all apps

• Defined process for updating apps.

• Develop common UI library to ensure consistency of all apps

• Design guidelines, principles, and standards

• Could potentially be a valuable upstream project in and of itself to create mobile fintech apps

Description

In 2024, With leadership of our mentors, this project would focus on building on the initial shared components of the UI library based off of the common screens and workflows identified across the various mobile apps. These common flows will be broken down into their-base-level elements and components.
If time permits, these common components could be tested and consumed by building out the UI screens for our reference open banking fintech app using this library.

Design enhancements to customer-facing apps include: 

• Break down common workflows into base-level components

• Refine and update design standards and guidelines

• Create and set up repository to house elements, components, and designs using jetpack compose.

• Design core ui component for our fintech app using jetpack compose.

• Develop and create base-level elements and components accoring to UI design standards and guidelines

• Implement screens and workflows to test out on reference open banking fintech app

• Documentation to ensure how to use UI library and update mobile app when UI library is updated.

Helpful Skills

Android Development, Kotlin, Java, Jetpack Compose, XML, Git

Impact

A clean and simple UI is key for our low-tech audience and professional and consistent look and feel enhances credibility of our stack. 

Other Resources

Recap on 2022 GSOC Project from Rahul Gill: https://gist.github.com/rahul-gill/6700c366627a2c7007a07b96ff6c0785

https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/spaces/MIFOSX/pages/3013476363

2020 UI Enhancements: https://gist.github.com/ShivangiSingh17/67b6041387c1e281caa7df23347f549e

Mobile Wallet Framework: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom

Mifos Mobile - Android Mobile Banking App: Source Code | Issue Tracker | Gitter Chatroom

See https://openmf.github.io/mobileapps.github.io/

Mentors

Tom Daly

Length

Large - 350 hours

Category

Platform | DevOps | Payment Hub EE

Overview & Objectives

The goal of this project is to improve the deployability of key projects of our stack like Mifos/Fineract and Payment Hub EE.

Kubernetes operators give kubernetes application dev/ops a great deal of reliability and architectural control over kubernetes applications deployments. Reference https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/operator/ for details on the benefits of Kubernetes operators. The benefits of Kubernetes operators can also be quite tangible and visibile by looking at those under development from peer projects in the financial inclusion space like Mojaloop vNext whom are building out a Kubernetes operator as a means to improve quality, simplify deployment, and improve reliability and testing.

Description

This project would focus first on gathering the learnings around Kubernetes operators and their patterns. There are many good examples in existence to follow (i.e. Mongo, Kafka, etc). This learning around the design would compose 30% of the project. The next and major focus of the project would be to choose what to move from what’s currently only in Helm to an Operator. Likely there will still remain a small helm chart simply to deploy the operator.

Helpful Skills

Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Bash, Java - Spring, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Cassandra, TDD With JUnit 4, Gradle

Impact

DevOps and Sys Admins running our projects would experience a more simplified deployment with greater degree of control, improved quality of their builds and greater reliability and ease of testing.

Other Resources

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/operator/  

• Mojaloop vNext Operator

Mentors

@jeremy engelbrecht

Length

Large - 350 hours

Category

AI | Platform - Modules | Exploratory

Overview & Objectives

The idea behind this project is to use a LLM to give command/prompts and have those commands fulfilled via selenium

Description

Following the similar types of commands/actions that can be executed in Fineract via our chatbot, this project would use LLMs to determine the intent of a user and fulfill those actions in the Mifos/Fineract applications using a tool like Selenium.

Helpful Skills

Python, LLM(Llama2 or similar), Selenium

Impact

This would dramatically change the way individuals interact with financial services. It goes well beyond a chatbot by being able to engage with a tool that can apply for and initiate financial transactions via prompts.

Other Resources

https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Mentors

@jeremy engelbrecht @Lalit Mohan S

Length

Large - 350 hours

Category

AI | Platform - Modules | Exploratory

Overview & Objectives

Mifos and Fineract and the suite of core banking applications we provide are highly complex applications both from a technical and domain knowledge perspective. Maintaining documentation around installing, configuring and using the application is challenging and presents a steep learning curve.

The goal of this project is to use Generative AI to create a Transformer such as LLM to have a Q&A with the organisation documentation. By having this LLM trained across the user manuals, wiki, ReadMEs, mailing list posts, forum posts, slack discussion, and documentation on our project, it would greatly simplify the experience for any implementer looking to use the software.

Description

Intern would create a Transfer such as LLM trained on all the sources of technical and user documentation across our project such that implementers could intereact with the documentation in a QA style format.

Helpful Skills

Hugging Face transformer, Llama2 or similar, Colab

Impact

This would greatly simplify the process of configuring, deploying and using our core banking software across various use cases making the software and documentation more maintainable for the project and more usable for the customer base.

Other Resources

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/llama2

Mentors

@jeremy engelbrecht @Lalit Mohan S @Aleksandar Vidakovic

Length

Large - 350 hours

Category

AI | Platform - Modules | Exploratory

Overview & Objectives

With continually growing adoption of Payment Hub EE to connect fiancial institutions using or not using Fineract into real-time payment systems, the likelihood of fraud is ever-growing. With all of this transactional data flowing into and out of Fineract, there is now also a wealth of data to analyze using rule-based and AI-based methods to detect transactional patterns and identify fraud. A lot of fraud detection and transaction monitoring happens centrally at the level of the payment switch but there’s quite a bit of value in analyzing this at the level of each individual DFSP and sharing this on-us transaction data back to the central payment switch or system

Goal of this project would be to work on a proof of concept integration between Mifos/Fineract and Payment Hub EE with a FRMS solutino for fraud detection and transaction monitoring. Given the power and potential of generative AI for financial services, project shoudl explore the use of generative AI for the following areas as documented by Newron:

• Anomaly Detection: Generative AI models can create synthetic data that mimics legitimate transactions. By training on both genuine and synthetic data, models become adept at detecting unusual patterns indicative of fraud.

• Adaptability: Unlike rule-based systems, Generative AI models can adapt to new fraud patterns. As fraudsters evolve, the model evolves with them, improving detection rates.

• Data Augmentation: Generative AI can augment imbalanced datasets by creating synthetic examples of rare events (fraudulent transactions), making the model more robust.

• Unsupervised Learning: Generative AI models, like Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) or Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), learn patterns in an unsupervised manner, reducing the need for manual labeling of fraudulent cases.

• Behavioural Analysis: Generative AI can analyze transaction behaviours, such as user interactions or purchasing habits, to identify deviations from the norm

Project could also integrated with eKuta which although rule-based and not AI-based provides a powerful FRMS solutino that aligns and integrates nicely with IIPS like Mojaloop.

Description

Intern would work on a POC integration to monitor and analyze data from real-time payment system flowing via Payment Hub EE into Fineract. Project could utilize generative AI to improve effectiveness of solutiona and can leverage existing efforts in the community to collaborate with eKuta solution.

Helpful Skills

Hugging Face transformer, Llama2 or similar, Colab

Impact

Real-time payments make the challenges and consequences of fraud ever more steep and severe. Using Generative AI to combat it and integrating with FRMS solutions will help the user base using Payment Hub EE and Fineract.

Other Resources

• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/revolutionising-fraud-detection-generative-ai-newron/

• Open Source Solution FRMS Solution - eKuta - https://github.com/mojaloop/documentation-artifacts/blob/main/presentations/pi_23_oct_2023/presentations/FRMS%20Update.pptx

Mentors

@Naman Dwivedi @Shivansh TiwariKarim Jindani @

Length

Large - 350 hours

Category

Mobile, Exploratory

Overview & Objectives

Across our ecosystem we're seeing more and more adoption and innovation from fintechs. A huge democratizing force across the financial services sector is the Open Banking movement providing Open Banking APIs to enable third parties to directly interact with customers of financial institutions. We have recently started providing an Open Banking API layer that will allow financial institutions using Mifos and Fineract to offer third parties access to requesting account information and initiating payments via these APIs. Most recently the Mojaloop community, led by Google, has led the development of a centralized PISP API

To demonstrate these Open Banking APIs and use cases that third parties and fintechs can provide we have developed a cross-platform reference mobile app on Kotlin to showcase a number of these features. It currently connects with the Open Bank Project that adheres to the UK Open Banking API standard. The API Gateway to connect to is still being chosen (WS02, Gravitee, etc.)

The breadth and variety of apps that could be built leveraging these APIs from region to region is endless. We would like this app to be built in an extensible and modular fashion such that core libraries and components could be re-used across different use cases with this framework as the foundation and multiple reference apps on top. Applications include personal financial management apps aggregating information from multiple bank accounts in one place, wallet apps allowing payments to be made from different banks, lending apps, leveraging data and insight from multiple accounts, savings apps, etc.

Description

Intern would work on refining the initial architecture of the framework, the UI and user experience, core use cases including customer authentication and onboarding that was implemented in 2020 and integrating with the Fineract Open Banking APIs and Mojaloop PISP APIs to demonstrate use cases around account information request and payment initiation. 

This would be a continuation of the project worked on a couple year’s back but essentially the idea is the same to have a stand-alone reference third party fintech app that demonstrates 3rd party initiation/ Open Banking APIs so the app itself would need its own separate user managment, etc but then it would pull in data by authorizing consnet via open banking api to pull in transactional data from a mifos/fineract account (could extend exiting open banking adapter and map additional fineract apis to UK open banking api standard and most importantly we’d want to use this reference fintech app to demonstrate the use of Mojaloop/Google 3PPI PISP APIs whereby a user could authorize and establish consent across any bank participating in a mojaloop switch to the fintech to initiate transactions through mojaloop via their accounts managed in Mifos/Fineract

• Aggregating account information across multiple banks/financial institution

• Initiating payments across multiple financial institutions

• Integrate with additional Fineract Open Banking APIs

• Integrate with Mojaloop PISP APIs. 

• Leverage completed components of UI library

Helpful Skills

Android development, SQL, Java, Javascript, Git, Spring, OpenJPA, Rest, Kotlin, Mojaloop

Impact

By providing an extensible open banking fintech app framework, allow partners a complete stack of Open Banking APIs and reference front-end application to rapidly build innovation via Open Banking APIs.   

Other Resources

Source code: https://github.com/openMF/pisp-app

Figma Design Mockups: https://www.figma.com/proto/ZkQJHzXWfjZugpTtz1MFdt/Mifos-PISP-App?node-id=10-27&starting-point-node-id=101%3A32&scaling=scale-down&t=vtBsVklbforA4MiB-1

Previous Development:

• 2023 Mifos Summer of Code Final Report - https://gist.github.com/lssarao/fc1293ad3c36d51317358348323b80c0

• 2020 Google Summer of Code Final Report - https://gist.github.com/ankurs287/4ef7c3de462073bf36bd5247479cb176

Google Whitepaper on 3PPI: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/nextbillionusers.google/en//tools/3PPI-2021-whitepaper.pdf

UK Open Banking API Standard: https://standards.openbanking.org.uk/

Open Banking Developer Zone: https://openbanking.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DZ/overview

Examples of Open Banking Apps: https://www.ft.com/content/a5f0af78-133e-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e

See https://openmf.github.io/mobileapps.github.io/

Mentors

 @Jose Hernandez @Aleksandar Vidakovic @Ed Cable

Category

Web - Mifos X Web App/Fineract

Overview & Objectives

Originally this idea was sparked by looking at what Moov has around UI drops - https://moov.io/product/drops/ and https://docs.moov.io/moovjs/drops/ Many different goals, directions, use cases emerge but they would all share in helping make UI more maintainable, more pluggable and having more of a toolkit for builders/developers that would align with Fineract being used for various core banking use cases outside of just financial inclusion as well as the need supporting a variety of fintech use cases with common elementsIn conversation with others, some different directions could emerge:

• @Nayan Ambali and seeing how Finflux has separated out UIs for different personas

• With @Victor Romero  serving the need to help others do custom/specific page view for certain functionality

• Ability to more pluggable components especially for customer-facing operations/use cases

• Have micro-front-ends be brought together to create a monolithic application like the web-app

• @aleksvidakovic suggestion on the real value being in how these components are used in other frameworks/portals and not a full complete application like we currently have.

For this round of GSOC I’d like us to define a project where we could do a micro front-end around a certain domain/functionality and pick a framework/design/architectural approach that we’d follow. (edited) 

Our 2022 intern, Ramveer Singh made substantial progress in completing the development of our new web app such that the Web App is now part of the Mifos X release distribution and we’ve fully deprecated our older Community App. Our Angular Web App is the standard application on the Mifos X distribution that provides all the core functionality for the most common methods of financial inclusion and products and services. It's also the starting point for any partners looking to customize or extend the UI. It's constantly being improved based on user feedback, better performance, and to integrate new design standards.

The focus for 2023 will be on continuing to optimize the design of key flows, improving app localization, adding in better context-sensitive help, improving dashboards and visualizations, and refactoring of the web app to consume a type-script client for better maintainability.

Description

Given this project is in it infancy, this would really be a proof of concept design the proper archiecture, learn which use cases are best candidates for pluggable and modular UI components and then choosing a framework in which to deploy multiple micro front-end as a single applicaiton with a unified user experience for end users.

• Propse and design architecture for Micro Front End approach

• Determine best front-end language or javascript framewor to use - leaning towards Angular

• Identify which existing screens or new screens should be implemented as seaprate microservice UIs.

Primary efforts center around:

• Fixing remaining issues

• Redesigning customer and account dashboard pages

• Refactor web app to consume typescript client

• Enhance look and feel of app.

• Implement third party library for proper internationalization.

The remaining issues can be found: https://github.com/openMF/web-app/issues

The progress is being tracked here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JxeJjG1GdZ3BNJi-sScCQLirfevSc8amFr8o3SfUj4U/edit?usp=sharing

Some additional work also includes adding in comprehensive keyboard shortcuts to enable power-users of the app and to ensure that the tabs and arrow keys work appropriately for navigating through the app, localization support, additional dashboards, adding of tooltips, etc. 

Helpful Skills

Javascript, SCSS, HTML5, Angular 9, Angular Material, Flex Layout

Impact

More pluggable, faster to develop, modular UI that better supports variety of use cases of Fineract.

• Reduced dependency on using entire monolithic app.

Other Resources

Usability and Design

Moov UI Drops - https://moov.io/product/drops/ and https://docs.moov.io/moovjs/drops/

Article on Angular & Micro Front-ends using Module Federation - https://auth0.com/blog/micro-frontends-with-angular-module-federation-and-auth0/

Mentors

 @Karan Takalkar @Bharath Gowda @Pushpendra Kumar @Ramveer

Category

Web - Mifos X Web App

Overview & Objectives

Our 2023 intern, Pushpendra made substantial progress in completing the development of our new web app such that the Web App is now part of the Mifos X release distribution and we’ve fully deprecated our older Community App. Our Angular Web App is the standard application on the Mifos X distribution that provides all the core functionality for the most common methods of financial inclusion and products and services. It's also the starting point for any partners looking to customize or extend the UI. It's constantly being improved based on user feedback, better performance, and to integrate new design standards.

The focus for 2023 will be on continuing to optimize the design of key flows, improving app localization, adding in better context-sensitive help, improving dashboards and visualizations, and refactoring of the web app to consume a type-script client for better maintainability.

Description

With the Mifos X 23.12 we release, we officially deprecated our Community App and replaced it with the Mifos X Web App. This was the culmintation of efforts over the the years - In 2018, we made the decision to re-write the entire Mifos X web app from Angular 1.75 to Angular 6 providing cleaner Material design, access to brand new libraries, better theming/skinnability, and a more stable and modern codebase. In 2019 we continued the re-write and upgraded to Angular 7.  In 2020 we upgraded to Angular 9 and continued the rewrite. In 2023, Pushpendra, created a layer to consume the auto-generated Fineract typescript client, completed all the oustanding screens, integrated Apache Superset partially, . Radha implemented the libraries for internationalization.

Primary efforts center around:

• Fix remaining issues

• Redesign customer and account dashboard pages

• Implement UI screens for new features contributed by commumity

• Implement authentication framework to fully integrate Superset for dashboards.

• Finalize refactoring of web app to consume typescript client

• Enhance look and feel of app.

• Imrpoving translations

The remaining issues can be found: https://github.com/openMF/web-app/issues

The progress is being tracked here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JxeJjG1GdZ3BNJi-sScCQLirfevSc8amFr8o3SfUj4U/edit?usp=sharing

Some additional work also includes adding in comprehensive keyboard shortcuts to enable power-users of the app and to ensure that the tabs and arrow keys work appropriately for navigating through the app, localization support, additional dashboards, adding of tooltips, etc. 

Helpful Skills

Javascript, SCSS, HTML5, Angular 9, Angular Material, Flex Layout

Impact

Enhanced User Experience, Intuitive application design

2023 Progress: https://gist.github.com/PC-11-00/8f726c2a6719c7493accbaa58bcfb047

2022 Progress: https://gist.github.com/ramvr1256/11c197b038250e7394462e8687ef15f8

2020 Progress: https://gist.github.com/karantakalkar/7a4acb83f31ebfe4f3b827c86c67eec0

https://gist.github.com/muskankhedia/b0929cbf2ae6236bfe07964a140da179

Other Resources

Usability and Design

Mentors

@Courage Angeh, @Victor RomeroTom Daly @Ed Cable @Elijah Okello

Length

Large

Category

Platform - DevOps | Infrastructure

Overview & Objectives

Mifos & Fineract integrated with Mojaloop via Payment Hub EE provides a end to end open source architecture for a building a complete digital financial services solution including managing wallets and stores of value In Mifos and Fineract to orchestrating and initiating real-time payments via the Mojaloop APIs throught Payment Hub EE orchestration engine. However, it takes significant time and effort to deploy and install each of these individual components which are comprised various microservices and libraries and dependencies. This presents a steep barrier for fintechs and financial institutions to evaluate and discover the potential of this powerful stack. This project aims to maintain and enhance this deployable package, Mojafos. A major focus in this second year will be storyboards to help an individual developer rapidly deploy this end to end environment. Each of the variou