Mobile Apps
We currently have native apps for Android, iOS and Ubuntu Touch.
We also have an HTML-based app for other mobile OSes based on Cordova and PhoneGap. We'd very much like have native apps for speed and access to more advanced features.
If you're an Blackberry or Windows Phone developer, we would very much welcome you :-)
Native Apps
Android
The application is already on the Google Play store and you can download it here.
You can also contribute to its development on GitHub: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/OpenFoodFacts-androidApp
iOS
The application is already on the Apple App store.
You can also contribute to its development on GitHub: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-ios
Ubuntu Mobile
For now its an alpha version.
You can compile it directly from the main repo on GitHub: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-ubuntu
Mobile Web version
See http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Project:Mobile_version
Phonegap - Android, iOS, Windows Phone
The application is mainly dedicated to the collection of products: bar code scanning , sending photos, input basic information.
The application is developed in HTML and JavaScript and is based on the PhoneGap platform (also known as Cordova). It is packaged for Android and iOS with the Moodstock scanner. On other platforms (Windows Phone…) it needs the BarcodeScanner PhoneGap plugin instead.
Links:
- Code on Github : https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-android/tree/master/phonegap/Open%20Food%20Facts
- App on the Apple AppStore
- App on Google Play
- App on the Windows Store
- App on the Amazon Store
Development notes
Brainstorming
Applications dedicated to uses other than the collection
Large public Application: information consultation
Display nutritional traffic lights etc. .
Large public Application: augmented reality
- Information display overlay product .
- Ongoing trial with Moodstocks. First tests rather conclusive: the products are easily recognized when the camera passes over (without scanning and without taking a picture).
Application for people who have difficulty reading
- For people who are blind, have difficulty reading when it says very little that can not read.
- Demo of Speech-enabled app on Android http://fr.openfoodfacts.org/js/off-vocal.apk
Other Apps?
- Calculation of calories and other nutrients
- An offline version ( avoiding making an internet connection for lookups)