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.
Official apps
New cross platform Flutter app
Classic Android (deprecated)
The app is deprecated for food. You can nevertheless contribute to its development on GitHub (it's still used at the moment for Open Beauty Facts, Open Pet Food Facts and Open Products Facts.
Documentation of the source code
The documentation is generated automatically from the source code and your improvements to code documentation are published automatically. https://openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-androidapp/
Figma
Figma project for the Android app
Roadmap
iOS (soon to be deprecated for the Flutter app)
The application is on the Apple App store. It is coded in Swift.
You can also contribute to its development on GitHub.
- ios and #ios-alerts on Slack
Roadmap
Figma
Ubuntu mobile
For now it is an alpha version.
You can compile it directly from the main repo on GitHub: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-ubuntu
Mobile web version
See https://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Project:Mobile_version
Phonegap - Android, iOS, Windows Phone (deprecated)
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 and used to be packaged with the Moodstock scanner. It now 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)