/anubis-mobile

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Anubis Mobile interface for users

Anubis

This is a proof of concept implementation of a Mobile application allowing resource owners to interact with a network of [Anubis](https://anubis-pep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) middleware to govern policies. Ultimately this allows for decentralized definition of policies for resources owners via a mobile device that will be the ultimate source of true for defined policies by resource owners.

Being a proof of concept to be further developed, we focused on the user interaction for policy definition and the interaction with the middleware leaving a side other aspects such as security and making the app available in a App store.

The mobile app currently as been tested only for Android (Android 11.1/12.1/13.0) with Android studio "Artic Fox". The visual part has been done using the api from Material for you and is using heavily the new theme engine.

User Manual

  1. A user, once launched the application, can register using the email.

    Registration

  2. Once registered, if any resource owned by the user are available in the middleware network, this will be listed in the home page.

    Home: List of resources

    Resources and related policies are retrieved via the /user/policies end point of the Policy Distribution Middleware API

  3. From the home page, the user can pick a resource, and see existing policies for the picked resource.

    List of policies

  4. In the policy view, the user using long press, can trigger the edit of a policy.

    Edit policy

  5. In the policy view the user can add new policies.

    New policy

  6. Once done, the user can push back policies to the middleware network using the synch button. A local copy will be preserved.

    Synch data

    Updated resource policies are published via the /user/policies end point of the Policy Distribution Middleware API

Development Setup

In order to run Anubis mobile you must at first configure React native using this guide. After that run inside the folder

$ npm install
$ react-native run-android

If watchman is doing an error:

This error is very common with the port on OSX to fix it, run this commands in order and then start the application again

$ watchman watch-del-all
$ watchman shutdown-server

Testing on your device

In order to run Anubis mobile on your device, follow this guide.