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
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)