mdbot

Telegram Bot for Ingress Mission Day to be held 11 August 2018 in Dnipro, Ukraine. Maintained by @mihmax.

Main functions

• Trilingual
• Two basic screens:
  • Main screen with text
  • Missions screen
• Autodetect user language, allow change
• Stores basic information about the user
• List of missions with maps
  • Since v5 with fast navigation

Technical trivia

• To build, run ./build.sh, results will be in out/artifacts/mdbot_jar
• Bot runs in long-polling mode (no public IP required)
• Written in Groovy (bundles Groovy 2.5.2 runtime)
• Known to compile on Java 8 (did not try other versions)
• Runs on Java 8 (Chronicle Map does not work on Java 10)

TODO

• Read all content (no hardcoded content)
• Robust storage (currently Chronicle Maps is used for multiple String - String maps)
  • Part 1 - is Chronicle Maps really needed? (8.9MB or ~ 19% of libraries that do not run on Java 10)
  • Part 2 - move all settings to one serializable class to store in 1 Chronicle Map

Release Notes

• Version 7 - post-Dnipro improvements
  • α - Code Cleanup, Variable Number of missions
  • β - Map of all missions
• Version 6 - removed QR code generation, Final Version that was running during Dnipro Mission Day
• Version 5 - final test
• Versions 0-4 - experimental versions