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The new Open Food Facts mobile application for Android and iOS, crafted with Flutter and Dart
https://world.openfoodfacts.org/open-food-facts-mobile-app?utm_source=off&utf_medium=web&utm_campaign=github-repo
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Multilingual products (Tracker) #2514

Open teolemon opened 2 years ago

teolemon commented 2 years ago

What

teolemon commented 1 year ago

A user says: "I am quite new using the App and wanted to contribute a few products. Now since the last update it seems I can seek for international products. Today I tried to scan cereals by crownfield (Lidl) in Germany, type "Traube Nuss Müsli". The barcode is 2035 3889. Now the problem is this, in the app it is called Vollkornmüsli (whole corn cereals?) But but Traube Nuss Müsli (grape nut cereals?). All pictures are in Spanish or France, can't say for sure, but also showing the wrong product. I don't know to approach this now. Should I completely redo the page or could it be the other product is correct too? Hope you can help me with this and thanks for the great service!"

benbenben2 commented 1 year ago

Using the mobile app (iOS), when I scan products from famous brands (coca-cola, nestle, haribo, nutella, etc.) that are already known in the database but are not yet included in my country, I have to go under "Edit product", "country" and add my country, if I want to see such product later when I go on the website for my country.

Did you ever consider adding a notification, something like "Would you like to add this product in "? (It would also allows me to know when I scan a product and see such message, that, even if there are already pictures for the product, there are probably no pictures of ingredients in my local language).

On the other hand, since I am living in a touristic country, I also noticed that some local products appear as sold in France while sometimes they do not even have the French version of the ingredients (see for example: https://hr.openfoodfacts.org/product/3850108037531/kefir-z-bregov). I suspect that when French tourists use the app in my country, it is automatically added as product sold in France. With such notification as described above, it could remind tourists to update there App Settings during the time of their stay.