bagasstrongman / smooth-app

A new Flutter application by Open Food Facts

Open Food Facts - Codename: "Smooth App"

A new Flutter application by Open Food Facts. You can install it on Android or iPhone/iPad. Note that a internal development build (Android or iPhone/iPad )if you'd like to use the results of your PRs quicker.

Smoothie. We pioneered the collaborative scanning app in 2012. With this experimental app, we’re reinventing it from the ground up, and this time, it’s personal.

You get:

• a scan that truly matches who you are (Green: the product matches your criteria, Red: there is a problem, Gray: Help us answer you by photographing the products)
• a product page that's knowledgeable, building on the vast amount of food facts we collect collaboratively, and other sources of knowledge, to help you make better food decisions

You can:

• scan and compare in 15 seconds the 3 brands of tomato sauces left on the shelf, on your terms.
• get a tailored comparison of any food category
• set your preferences without ruining your privacy

Criteria you can pick:

• Environment: Eco-Score
• Health: Additives & Ultra processed foods, Salt, Allergens, Nutri-Score

Presentation

This new mobile application aims to showcase Open Food Facts's power to a broad range of users through a smooth user experience and sleek user interface.

Smooth-app is developed in parallel to the openfoodfacts-dart plugin, which provides a high level interface with the Open Food Facts API. Every new interaction with the API should be implemented in the plugin in order to provide these new features to other developers.

Contributing - What can I work on ?

Are you a developer? A graphic designer? Full of innovative ideas to help users improve their mode of consumption? Then join us! We are always looking for new contributors, if you're willing to help please let us know, we'll be pleased to introduce you to the project.

• On GitHub, you can start here to get some inspiration
• You can join the Open Food Facts's Slack here : Get an invite - Open our Slack.

Wiki & Doc

• Project Smoothie - Open Food Facts wiki
• Documentation (from code), on GitHub Pages
• Smoothie GitHub wiki
• Smoothie marketing automation repository
• UX mockups are located here. Please be aware that some of them have not been validated, so don't rush in implementing them.
• Continuous Integration documentation

V1 Roadmap

• Minimal editing/addition value proposition
• V1 tracking

V2 - Later Roadmap

Screenshot automation (High priority)

• Add multilingual screenshot generation using Fastlane (Scan screen, settings screen, personalized ranking screen, home screen)

Gamification

• User management + Small point system for contributions

Scanning

• Add offline scanning to ensure results in all conditions

Building

In order to build the application, make sure you are in the packages/smooth_app directory and run these commands :

• flutter pub get
• flutter run

Dev Mode

• How to activate it: We now have a secret in-app dev mode which allows you to debug things faster, or access not-ready-for-primetime features. You can access it by: going to the Food preferences screen, Your Profile, User Management, Forgotten Password and then tapping ten times on the "Change password" button of the Reset Password screen (without typing any email).
• Feel free to file an issue if you'd like new switches in this dev mode.
• You can also add new flags for your features.
  • example: openfoodfacts#834

Internationalization

• Translations of the interface are managed using the new Flutter internationalization introduced in Flutter 1.22.
• New strings need to be added to lib/l10n/app_en.arb and the corresponding translations can be added through CrowdIn. Do not edit the other app_*.arb files as they will be overwritten by CrowdIn.

Thank you

Smooth_app is made possible thanks to a grant by the Mozilla Foundation, after pitching them the idea at FOSDEM. a HUGE thank you :-)