Custom foods

[AdamWier]

For the moment, we can only add foods that are found in the databases. It would be good to enter foods manually as well.

[RohitShelke10]

Can you describe the issue in detail, I would like to work on the backend part of this

[AdamWier]

Hi, @RohitShelkeBot. As it is a mobile app that uses firebase, there is not much backend involved.

To try to reexplain in more detail, currently when adding foods we have a text search field that looks in either the USDA database or Open Food Facts database. It then shows a list of foods found, you select one, input the portion amount and save the food to a meal.
This goal of this github issue would be to bypass the step where we search with a button that goes directly to the food screen with all fields editable, and then that food is saved to the meal using the user input. You can see the fields in question by going to the meal collection and in a document you have the field meal which is an array of food objects with the properties amount, calories, carbs, fats, name, portionDescription, protein. All these properties should be able to entered manually by the user rather than having to be found in a database.

See next comment for some pictures, which should help understand this post.

[AdamWier]

This is the search screen. You get there by logging in, pressing the plus button and then the "Add a food" button. We would ideally add a button to the right of the "Scan barcode" button that says "Manually input food" that goes to the second screen.

The second screen would look similar to a search result but there would be no portion selector and the values circled would be editable text or number fields. (Including the portionDescription field.)

[AdamWier]

For reference, here is what the meal document looks like. I have highlighted a single food

[AdamWier]

Please let me know if this was sufficiently clear and if you have more questions

[RohitShelke10]

@AdamWier Thanks for the great explanation, I appreciate your efforts, but I'm not proficient in mobile app development or frontend. I'm afraid I won't be able to work on this. Sorry

[AdamWier]

Title broken and button broken with error on route params

[AdamWier]

Reverted while working on upgrade