Folksonomy Mobile Experiment

This repo is a generic mobile app, call Scan and Tag, that scans products and, for a given property:

• either tells the user what is the corresponding value
• either, if there's no value, lets the user enter a value

This app is made to explore quick and (not so) dirty mobile usages of the Folksonomy Engine project. It is designed as a kind of a template for other apps.

The goal of Folksonomy engine is to unleash an ocean of new usages regarding food knowledge. Folksonomy engine allows all kind of people — citizens, researchers, journalists, professionals, artists, communities, innovators... — to enrich and use Open Food Facts, thanks to free tags and properties for your own use or to enrich the shared knowledge. Open Food Facts, as the biggest open-food database in the world, already feeds hundreds of data reuses. It will allow thousands of new apps and new usages.

Installing the app

[The app is not yet deployed. You can build it yourself.]

Dev

This app is a prototype. To allow as much people as possible to reuse the code or to contribute, it is based on Apache Cordova. Contributing to the app only requires HTML, CSS and javascript skills.

Installing the dev environement

• Install nodejs and npm
• Install Cordova globally: npm install -g cordova
• Install Android Studio (this is the most complicated stuf)
• create a new directory and open it in a terminal
• git clone [email protected]:openfoodfacts/folksonomy_mobile_experiment.git
• cd folksonomy_mobile_experiment
• npm install
• cordova platform add browser
• cordova platform add android
• Create a pass.js based on pass_sample.js and fill it with Open Food Facts credentials (you shouldn't use you own personal account)
• cp ./www/js/pass_sample ./www/js/pass.js
• ... should now work. To verify installation is ok:

cordova run browser

You should see a web version of the app in your browser (but scan won't work).

If you want to generate an Android mobile app:

cordova run android

We are using the Browsync-gen2 Cordova plugin to allow live reload after each code modification. To use this feature, try:

cordova run browser --live-reload
cordova run android --live-reload

Screenshot

Credits

• Data by Open Food Facts contributors, under ODbL licence.
• Photos by Open Food Facts contributors, under Creative Commons 3.0 CC-BY-SA licence.
• Icon by Rafiqul Hassan, published at IconArchive