GSOC 2022 - Offline Smoothie
Offline Smoothie
Summary
Description
Status: planning
People:
- Aman Raj / Open Food Facts user-name: ashaman / Slack: @Aman Raj / Github: AshAman999
- Edouard
- Marvin
- (PM support: Pierre)
Impact (why)
Expected outcomes (what)
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.