Design and implementation of food management system on Android platform with QR code support

Abstract

Food wastage is increasingly becoming a topic of concern due primarily to the negative impact it has on the economic and agricultural industry. Research has shown that in Finland, households seems to be the highest producers of food waste and some of this, is as a result of food being disposed because they are expired. The main objective of this thesis was to provide a viable solution that allows mobile users to track the life cycle of their food inventory efficiently. This project also provides a demo of better implementation with future enhancement in food packaging. This project was developed for the Android platform, using Facebook integration to simplify the user registration and a web server for storing the information. The mobile application, which acts as the client-side component was developed and built in the Eclipse software environment using the Android SDK alongside external libraries, Facebook SDK for Facebook integration and ZBarScannerLibrary to read QR code. The server-side component was developed using the Notepad++ software for the PHP code and phpMyAdmin for the database management. The end application is able to register user with their Facebook account and food entries can be added and deleted both on the mobile device and the server.