Android Update Now Available - View Friend Diaries, Offline Food Search, and More
Posted on 2012-06-06 by mike
About a week ago, we released an update that added the following new features to the app:
- View friend's diaries: If user's have elected to share their diary with other members, those diaries can now be viewed in the app
- Offline food search: We've added a streamlined offline database so that you can search for foods even when an internet connection is unavailable
- Add a profile picture: Upload and manage a profile picture right from the app
- Bug fixes: Numerous performance enhancements and stability improvements
Today, we released a second update which contains several fixes for a few crashes a small subset of users were experiencing with our last update. We also fixed a bug where the total net calories under the weekly goal was not calculating correctly.
If you run into any issues with the latest version of the app, please just let us know and we'll look into it ASAP.
Hope you are all enjoying MFP!
Mike, Al, and the MFP team



Suggestions:
1) how about the ability to use all decimals on the app? .75 should not round to .8
2) Even more problematic... A user's height on the website really needs to measure to the half inch... I am 5'6.5 and my stats can either be set to 5'6 or 5'7 but neither of those work for me because I am 5'6 and 1/2
If it would be too hard to have a user input 5'6.5 inches then even being able to convert it to decimals would be fine (66.5) but i can't do that either.
Most of the time I want to re-use a food I've entered before, but the Most Used and Recent are a bit unwieldy and limited when you have to go from page to page and wait for each page to load. It's simply not worth it, and I've given up on even using those unless it's something I know is on the first page of either the Most Used or Recent list. I find it easier to do a brand new search than to try to find something I've used before if it's past the 1st page on either of those lists.
But what would be great would be the ability to do a search again ANY food I've entered before and nothing else. Thus, if I know I want to re-use a food I've used before, I just enter a keyword, and I know I'll be able to quickly get it from the list. That would be fantastic!
As an alternative to a search, it could also be a filter on the Most Used or Recent lists. That would have the same effect.
Either way, whether as a search or filter, it would make the app about 100 times more useful. Thanks!!
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Device is 7inch tablet.
Model Number - MID
Android Version: 2.3.4
Kernel Version: 2.6.36
If this helps :)
A request: since Kindle Fire doesn't have a camera, any chance of allowing manual barcode entry for food?
On a separate note, I have only been using the desktop and mobile versions of the site for about a week now, but have been impressed at the sync between the two. One of the best I have used to date! Great job on your work with this - thank you, thank you.
love the feature of using the barcode and am lost without it. Please help!
If I could disable the offline DB that would be fine also.
Thanks
By the way it would be great to have this tool on the main site too (as a report tool for example).
Best regards.
Thanks for the improvements!
Also, connection errors, but these are nothing new. If I can get on the web via the mobile browser, check my email, forums via Tapatalk, etc., how is MFP not seeing a connection? Is it on the site's end?
You still have lots of room for improvement in your logging area but you are in the lead. Keep the updates comming and stay there.
I found myfitnesspal when I spent my days at home, in front of the PC, and it helped to get rid of a few pounds.
Now I travel a lot more, and I also have an Android phone, which is usually offline, except for mornings and evenings. Needing a computer to register meals and snacks, let alone checking a food before I buy or eat it, was not easy, and I stopped using the page out of laziness.
Now I can search and enter everything right as I eat it - it's a great help.
Thank you again!
Merula
Every time I try to add foods it just lags and the force closes. It's so slow in searching and adding that I give up most of the time, write it all down and add it using the PC.
I've had these issues for a couple of weeks now, and the new release hasn't fixed it for me.
I use the Samsung Galaxy S on the latest Android update.
I hate to moan as I love the site and the way it helps people, but the App isn't working for me.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/help/faq/257-why-does-the-android-app-request-permission-to-access-my-contacts-list
could be good if I can create My Own Food with barcode. please add this field, I ready for input digits manualy , if camera scaner feture is hard to add
I think, you should do small video for food adding / creating on youtobe. reason - streamline database, as sometime i found food, but with mistakes.
Also, you should put an ad remover on the Market. I think people should be able to choose between paying a couple bucks to lose the ad and reclaiming that extra space, or putting up with the ad and paying nothing. You might be surprised how many people buy it, even if they don't care about the ad.
For those having problems with the app, you can always use the mobile browser and access the site directly. Tablet users might find this is the better experience, but regular phone users might find it useful as well.
I have also tried uninstall/reinstall. Please fix it :(
I have tried deleting them online, but they just come back? I would like to delete them from my iphone.
Thanks
Thanks for all the work..
If there a suggestion bucket...
Android App for tablet ??
Thanks!!
Thank you for making the nutrition summaries work! Now that they actually display over the period selected, they'll be much more useful.
I would love to be able to adjust things in my lists - in the app preferably, online if necessary. I have four different "banana" foods on my recent list, because of entering them in different meals. And they really should display the same names in both places! What displays as Banana (raw) on the app displays as Raw - Banana online. This makes it unnecessarily confusing to try to use the delete functions that do exist online. I'd love to be able to adjust the displayed (and sorted by) name, too, so that I can label something the way I'll look for it instead of trying to remember a brand name or something.
I'd love to be able to shift entered foods and meals to a different meal designator - sometimes I eat a meal for dinner and the leftovers (half the meal) for lunch the next day. Not something I want to enter as a meal - not something I'll have regularly - but it's really annoying to have to enter it again when there's that lovely functionality to 'copy to date' - but if I use it it shows up as the wrong meal!
I have lots of minor complaints about the app and MFP in general. But it is by far the best, most useful program I've tried, and being able to enter everything on my phone makes it work. Thank you!
Also, second for being able to filter search to foods previously used.
And being able to see the macro profile of foods on the app would be great too.
This is more than most of my other apps put together because they offer the ability to store on the SD card.
Best app ever!!! Thank you very much:-)
This is more than most of my other apps put together because they offer the ability to store on the SD card. "
I had to do this also. I have a Galaxy Ace and can't upgrade till next July. Please fix it for us poor low memory users!