heriproj / shopping-droid

Database integrated, and barcode reader android app that provides location based information about scanned item

Shopping-Droid 0.1

Database integrated, and barcode reader android app that provides location based information about scanned item

This project is under GPL3 License except that commercial use is not allowed.

please check screen shots

Feature List

Barcode scanner

• Use android phone to scan a product's barcode to use it in finding information about this product.

Web Interface

• query the server from web browser using different ending URL

Recommendation of similar products

• same product in other stores
• similar products (same type, near price) in same store
• similar products in all stores

History of scanned items

• Saving the current store
• Also saving information ( product bought, its price, ... etc)
• Keep the last 20 scanned items for example

Favourite list

• Save favorite items on device for offline usage.
• Insert new entries on device offline DB for later usage.
• Also can be FK on that entry in the main DB.

Store location finder

• Search for nearby stores.

• Using GPS to locate your position, and using Google Maps to show you location of the stores.
• current store is determined by current user location, if the user was not in a store the nearest store is considered the current store

Application interface

• User friendly interface. posting screenshots soon.

Module List

server side

RESTfull API link

• MySQL Database DB design
• PHP interface to route queries, Only supported requests are GET requests. Response in JSON format
• different ending URLs

Client Side

• Device sends a GET request to the server using HTTP
• Server replies with JSON object
• JSON object is parsed and a list of stores or products is retrieved and displayed to the user.

Barcode Scanner

Integrated with zXing (zebra crossing) link

• Open source library which has Apache 2.0 license to scan barcodes of products, which can be used to retrieve any necessary information about the product from the Database.

Stores Map

Google Maps Javascript API v3 link

• used for displaying all stores on the map so that the user may find nearby stores to his current location.

On device database

SQLite database

• Used to store scannig history (auto cleaning list of the last 20 items scanned)
• Also used to save a favorite list

Location Manager

• Getting current user location based on GPS.
• Switching to network provided locaiton if GPS is not available

Screen Shots