GSOC 2022 - Offline Smoothie

Offline Smoothie

Description

Status: planning

People:

• Aman Raj / Open Food Facts user-name: ashaman / Slack: @Aman Raj / Github: AshAman999
• Edouard
• Marvin
• (PM support: Pierre)

Timeline

• Community Bonding Duration ( May 20 - June 12) :
  • Explore the documentation and codebase thoroughly
  • Discuss a roadmap with the mentors for a long-lasting solution
  • Discuss the general working of how the offline mode is going to work that might include some design patterns as well.
• Week 1 ( June 13 - June 18 ) :
  • Discuss with the mentors about the making if using any SQL-based local DB or go with some JSON-like ones.
  • Making UI changes to the app so as to highlight the users if they are using the app in the offline mode through snack bars.
  • Start plotting the schema of the data to be stored for the scanned/searched items.
• Week 2 ( June 21 - June 26 ) :
  • Start plotting the schema of the data to be stored for the scanned/searched items.
  • Take into consideration all the attributes to be stored.
  • Adding a menu for the users to control/delete the cached items from the stored data, the user might want to get rid of the data so as to make the app lightweight again.
• Week 3-4 ( June 29 - July 10 ) :
  • Start the changes to make a lookup of data in the local database.
  • Search for the results on the scan and search page in the local database.
  • Store the image path into the local DB.
  • Use cached Network Image to keep the images stored in the local DB or take inspiration from PR 1600
• Week-5 ( July 12 - July 17) :
  • Start storing the scanned product barcodes in the local DB
  • Start with mapping a search of the barcodes scan in the scan page to look into the local database and if not found show an appropriate msg through snack bars.
• Week 6 ( July 19 - July 24) :
  • Work on leftover over and improve the design aspects to the UI changes
  • Clean up the code and maintain the documentation.
  • Prepare the work for the first evaluation.

Resources / Contributing

• repository: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app
• project board: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/33
• meeting minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qRkbZwtkASM3_BNhZSkFEekkhrllddR4Tv69bCdquPs/edit#heading=h.crn3zp8c1ahp