Mindat Mobile

A Tauri 2.0 iOS app for finding mineral localities near your GPS location using the Mindat database.

Features

• GPS-based locality search with interactive map
• Element symbol detection (Cu, Fe, Au, etc.) for mineral filtering
• Name-based locality search (Copper, Mine, etc.)
• Settings menu with km/mi toggle (miles default)
• Load More pagination for additional results
• State detection from GPS coordinates

Requirements

• macOS with Xcode installed
• Rust toolchain with iOS targets
• Mindat API key (get one at mindat.org)
• Apple Developer account (for iOS builds)

Setup

1. Install dependencies

# Install Rust iOS targets
rustup target add aarch64-apple-ios aarch64-apple-ios-sim

# Install JS dependencies
pnpm install

2. Configure Apple Development Team

Set your Apple Developer Team ID via environment variable:

export APPLE_DEVELOPMENT_TEAM="YOUR_TEAM_ID"

Or configure it in Xcode after running cargo tauri ios init.

3. Run on iOS Simulator

cargo tauri ios dev

4. Enter API Key

On first launch, enter your Mindat API key in the app.

Known Limitations

• Mindat API ignores page_size parameter (returns ~10 per page)
• No server-side GPS filtering for element searches (filtered client-side)
• Search for elements like "Cu" returns all USA localities, then filters by radius