| Summary: | Add library card to smart phone wallet | ||
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| Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Christopher Brannon <cbrannon> |
| Component: | OPAC | Assignee: | Bugs List <koha-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Testopia <testopia> |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | dcook, ddaghita, martin.renvoize, sally.healey |
| Version: | Main | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Change sponsored?: | --- | Patch complexity: | --- |
| Documentation contact: | Documentation submission: | ||
| Text to go in the release notes: | Version(s) released in: | ||
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Description
Christopher Brannon
2020-04-30 16:33:20 UTC
Here's an interesting article that might help inspire: https://www.howtogeek.com/286620/how-to-add-any-card-to-the-iphone-wallet-app-even-if-it-isnt-supported-by-apple/ The article describe a workaround that an individual might use. I don't think it gives any insight into how it could be accomplished on our end. I'm pretty sure you'd have to have an app installed on the iPhone which would interface with the OS's wallet system. Perhaps someone with some app development experience could confirm. (In reply to Owen Leonard from comment #2) > I'm pretty sure you'd have to have an app installed on the iPhone which > would interface with the OS's wallet system. Perhaps someone with some app > development experience could confirm. You don't need an app to add to the Apple Wallet. Servers send cryptographically signed compressed packages to the user who can add the package to their phone's wallet as a pass. The tricky bit with Apple is that the signature needs to be done using a key from an Apple developer account. I don't think we'd want to do this at a community level; I think it would need to be done at an institutional/organisational level. For the Google Wallet, Martin provided the following link: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/add-to-wallet-android#0 I haven't reviewed it though. Looks like the Apple Developer program costs at least 99 USD, although a library might be able to get a fee waiver... https://help.passkit.com/en/articles/2010098-why-do-i-need-an-apple-developer-account Note that this could be an interesting Koha plugin. |