Open Food Facts iOS app

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What is Open Food Facts?

Open Food Facts is a food products database made by everyone, for everyone.

Help translate Open Food Facts in your language

You can help translate Open Food Facts and the app at (no technical knowledge required, takes a minute to signup): translate.openfoodfacts.org

Features

• Offline barcode scanning
• Product search
• Allergen alert
• Product details
• Image upload
• Handle multilingual products (view)
• Handle multilingual products (data addition)
• On-the-fly OCR of ingredients and labels for new product addition
• Internationalised user interface
• Native editing
• Product addition
• Night mode

What can I work on ?

Open Food Facts on iPhone and iPad has 0,5M users and 1M products. Each contribution you make will have a large impact on food transparency worldwide. Finding the right issue or feature will help you have even more more impact. Feel free to ask for feedback on the #android channel before you start work, and to document what you intend to code.

Priority roadmap

• Additives evaluation (already ready server side and on Android) issue #173
• Compare Mode issue #153
• Product lists (to buy, eaten…)

Secondary roadmap

• On-device Product cache
• Add a food category browser
• Add support for the new JSON taxonomy system (multilingual, and data augmentation from Wikipedia/Wikidata)
• Support for Open Beauty Facts, Open Pet Food Facts and Open Product Facts

Issues

Here are issues and feature requests you can work on:

Search issues

• Disable search as you type: it does not work and causes performance issues on the server P1 bug search

Scan issues

• Card is completely blank if no name/brand/quantity/image is selected

History issues

• Offline scans are not added to your history
• Allow to export the product history

Product editing issues

• Add a prompt to extract Ingredients when photo is already present

Refactoring issues

• Storyboardify app
• Try to support iOS 9 again

Onboarding new users

• Add a dynamic changelog

Viewing products

• Traces are not translated

Images

Building

Automatic setup

The easiest way to setup the dependencies of the project and generate the Xcode project is to run sh scripts/setup.sh from the top of the repository.

Manual setup

If you prefer to not use the sh scripts/setup.sh script and install the dependencies yourself, follow the instructions below.

We use Carthage for dependency management.

Run carthage bootstrap --platform iOS --cache-builds before opening the project in Xcode.

You can install Carthage with Homebrew:

brew install carthage

To generate the Xcode project run sh scripts/create-project.sh. In order to generate the Xcode project we use XcodeGen.

Carthage resources

New to Carthage? Others have found the following resources helpful:

• Ray Wenderlich's Carthage Tutorial
• Chris Mendez's Carthage cheat sheet

Fastlane

Currently there are two lanes, one for running the tests (fastlane test) and one for uploading a new beta to TestFlight (fastlane beta).

You can install Fastlane with Homebrew:

brew cask install fastlane

SwiftLint

We have a script that runs when building the app, it executes SwiftLint to enforce a style and conventions to the code.

You can install SwiftLint with Homebrew:

brew install swiftlint

Support

OpenFoodFacts has a Slack team where we chat, discuss and support each other, join the #iOS and #iOS-alerts channels. Click here to join.