Mobile Apps

We currently have HTML-based apps for iOS and Android, using a wrapper. We'd very much like have native apps for speed and access to more advanced features. If you're an iOS, Android, Blackberry or Windows Phone developper, we'd very much welcome you :-)

Mobile applications for Open Food Facts.

Mobile version

See http://fr.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Projet:Version_mobile

Android and iOS ( PhoneGap )

Application mainly dedicated to the collection of products: barcode scanning , sending photos, input basic informations.

The application is developed in HTML and JavaScript and is based on the PhoneGap platform (also known as Cordova) to be packaged for Android and iOS .

Phonegap can be used on other platforms ( Windows Phone,etc…) But the app also need BarcodeScanner PhoneGap plugin.

Links:

• Code on github : https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-android/tree/master/phonegap/Open%20Food%20Facts
• App on the Apple AppStore : https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/open-food-facts/id588797948
• App on Google Play:

Application for Google Glass (modified Android app )

Google Glass is the ultimate and efficient product collection method:

• Ok Google, Scan this product.
• Ok Google, Take a picture.
• Ok Google, Take a picture.
• Ok Google, Product Name: Pasta Carbona Weight: 500g Brand: Leader Price.
• Ok Google, Save and send to OpenFoodFacts.
• Bang next product .

A developer began a somewhat related application : https://plus.google.com/116935303826575659970/posts/Q9my4128soE

Moving from a wrapped HTML app to Native Apps

A native application would allow a more fluid use ( PhoneGap app is actually running in a webview , a kind of Web browser, and is suddenly relatively slow and sometimes unstable ) .

== 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-enable app on Android http://fr.openfoodfacts.org/js/off-vocal.apk

Features to add

• Modification of existing products ( image rotation , selection of specific areas, filling fields)
• The application asks to photograph a specific part of the package when the product is marked incomplete
• The application offers simple visual recognition challenges that can supplement the missing data ( ie: What brand ? What weight? What protein value ? Which of these images is the nutrition ? Which of these images is the ingredients ? )
• Photo Mode (it never leaves the camera mode, with a simple tap to take a picture , and there is a button to change product )
• Off-Line Mode to scan products with limited or no connection.

Other Apps?

• Calculation of calories and other nutrients
• An offline version ( avoiding making an internet connection for lookups)