Mobile App/Roadmap

New roadmap

• Mandate: Towards 1 million users (and beyond) for Open Food Facts Mobile App
• Presentation on the 5 possible tracks: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14hfX71VDb0fIX866CHBlD4TM3qaSf7JEWyQZzftsed0/edit#slide=id.g2577ef83fb9_0_627
• Results: https://blog.openfoodfacts.org/en/news/next-mobile-app-results-of-our-co-construction
• 2023 presentation during the Open Food Facts days: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EtK-v0HlJzdf0Guwx0Efk2kcEUH9UF3XxeePRYlJ77c/edit
• You can build & install a Proof of Concept app for Android: https://github.com/g123k/smooth_app_poc

Things planned

• Universal product addition & Universal product scan (part of the Open Products Facts project supported by AFNIC) - https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/issues/2590
• Robotoff help during product addition / edition and more intelligent ML throughout the app - eg: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/issues/4069 - https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/issues/3986 - https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/issues/3985 - https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/issues/3279
• Integration of Nutri-Patrol (backend ready) - https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/issues/5390
• Integration of Search-a-licious (backend ready)
• Integration of NutriSight (Nutrition extraction, backend not yet ready) - https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/issues/4896

Things on the radar

• Receipt management (we sent a grant proposal for this)

Things we need to finish

• Offline mode support. We did the heavy lifting in the app, we need server support, and an additional effort in the app - https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/issues/4023
• Add export to lists
• Improve Hunger Games (full page, homescreen shortcut)

Virality roadmap

• Product battle mode: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/smooth-app/issues/4223
• Prices & receipts excellence
• Offline scan
• Product alternatives
• Good page structure and Additives/Labels helpfulness

Salvageable items from older roadmaps

• Add a timer for cooking based on the barcode and our data
• Photo Mode (it never leaves the camera mode, with a simple tap to take a picture , and there is a button to change product )
• Send notifications from time to time to propose to log a product.
• Allow users to do more tasks
• Ability to automatically add the place where the product was scanned

Lists

Send text info to shopping list apps

Apparently the link button can send a link to OFF to any app that accepts images or text; even to the gallery, which receives a QR code image. OI Shopping List also receives a link, which is not useful. It would be useful to send to it something like the TITLE - BRAND - QTY you see in OFF's lists.

Old roadmaps

2021

2021 Roadmap

Done

• [DONE iOS] [DONE Android] Create an account on Open Foodfacts from your mobile
• [TODO iOS] [DONE Android] Modification of existing products ( image rotation , selection of specific areas, filling fields)
• [DONE iOS] [DONE Android] 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 ? )
• [DONE iOS] [TODO Android] Offline Mode to scan products with limited or no connection.
• Can add pictures taken with the phone photoroll [WONTFIX > potential quality issues]
• The application asks to photograph a specific part of the package when the product is marked incomplete
• There are areas where the touch makes much sense ( eg. rotate images, select the images and image areas to identify logos, packer codes, nutritional information... )
• Ability to edit section by section
• Mobile autocompletion
• [done android] Propose a game that asks simple question after simple question to tag existing products
• Add more fields that are mobile optimized (directly a numeric Keypad for weight, for example)

Experiments fr:Applications mobiles