OpenWatch is a global citizen journalism project with the goal of building a more transparent and less corrupt society.
This app will allow you to stream video and photos directly to the web! It's the easiest possible way to get your media online. Use this application to record any events you witness, your encounters with the police, border agents, or other authority figures, or to just record anything you find interesting. Your recordings will appear online to be used in public interest investigations and news stories.
A low quality video stream is sent the OpenWatch.net web server while you're filming, in case your phone is deliberately or accidentally broken while you're filming, and then a high quality version is synced online once you're finished recording, giving you the advantages of a streaming service like uStream, but all of the high-quality video ability of your phone's local video camera.
OpenWatch can also send you alerts and special assignments, so you can become the top reporter for events in your local community. Top contributors may even be offered special missions and paid opportunities.
This is the first version of the application, so please let us know if you find any bugs or have any feedback to give us. OpenWatch is Free and Open Source software.
If you would like to contribute/improve a translation:
- Visit our Transifex project page and make an account if you don't have one already.
- Go to the resources for Localizable.strings to add a new language or improve an existing translation.
- Open an issue on Github notifying us of your translation.
Thank you!
When downloading the source make sure to clone the repository with:
$ git clone git@github.com:OpenWatch/OpenWatch-iOS.git --recursive
Or if you didn't use the --recursive flag when cloning you can do:
$ cd /path/to/OpenWatch-iOS
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
This will ensure you have all of the required submodules.
Install mogenerator. This will regenerate the generated Core Data model files.
Create ./OpenWatch/OWAPIKeys.h with the following content:
#define TESTFLIGHT_APP_TOKEN @"your_testflight_token"
#define USERVOICE_API_KEY @"your_uservoice_api_key"
#define USERVOICE_API_SECRET @"your_uservoice_api_secret"
#define BUGSENSE_API_KEY @"your_bugsense_api_key"
To run the software you'll need to use hardware that supports a camera and hardware accelerated video recording (basically all iOS devices made after the iPhone 3GS). You'll also need an active iOS developer account, and the most recent version of Xcode. It also requires iOS 6+ at the moment.
Software License Agreement (GPLv3+)
Copyright (c) 2013, The OpenWatch Corporation, Inc. All rights reserved.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
If you would like to relicense this code to distribute it on the App Store, please contact us at team@openwatch.net.
This software additionally references or incorporates the following sources of intellectual property, the license terms for which are set forth in the sources themselves (check the Submodules directory for more information):
- AFNetworking
- BButton
- Browser-View-Controller
- BSKeyboardControls
- Crittercism
- DWTagList
- EGOTableViewPullRefresh
- facebook-ios-sdk
- FormatterKit
- JSBadgeView
- MagicalRecord
- MBProgressHUD
- MWFeedParser
- PKRevealController
- SLGlowingTextField
- SSKeychain
- SSToolkit
- SuggestionsList
- TestFlight
- TUSafariActivity
- UserVoice
- WEPopover
Any original media assets that we have created (in the Media folder) are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license:
- Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
- Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
- Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
- Play Icon - José Manuel de Laá Artacho
- Eye Icon - Sergi Delgado
- Other Icons from Glyphish
- Check the Submodules folder for the rest!