Hi, I'm Yakobo
Smart mineralogist's developer
I am a Tanzanian citizen with Bachelor’s degree in both Computer science and Geology. I started developing Smart mineralogist in 2014 and completed it after 2 and half years. The idea for the app came out of my undergraduate studies where it was so hard to get mineral information in the field. When I needed hard data for a mineral I didn't know, I had to carry heavy books or ask my peers and tutors, which was highly inconvenient. Lack of cellphone reception in the field made matters worse. After I graduated, I wasn't employed immediately, as is common in our country, so if found myself with a lot of free time. I used the time to develop Smart mineralogist to what it is today, a truly offline pocket mineral app with 5,000+ mineral data at your fingertips.
Off course, that was 10 years ago and things have changed significantly since then. I no longer have as much free time as I used to, however, I am still dedicated to maintaining the app. I work on it whenever I am free to squash bugs and make sure support for newer Android versions is always available. As for new content, this is something I cannot promise will get implemented but, I am more interested in adding new mineral photos. If interested in donating your mineral photos to the app, please contact me on the following E-mail: smartmineralogist@yakobo.org. Also, please do so if and only if you are ok with the conditions below...
Do not contribute copyrighted content unless you are the owner(s) of the content.
Your contributions retain your copyright notice unless specified otherwise.
Use of your content outside the scope of smart mineralogist (e.g. journals, promotions) will only be done under your expressed consent/conditions.
By donating your content, you also grant us irrevocable rights to continue to display that content for the remainder of Smart mineralogist’s lifetime.
Thank you for using Smart mineralogist.
