Expiring Things

Changelog

Version 4.0 (August 2021)

• Tags: you can now add arbitrary tags to your products. You can use tags for sub- or macro-categories, to memorize where the product was buyed, for products’ ingredients, for shopping lists, or for any other thing you can imagine! You can add tags to products in their edit page, or directly from the list with their context menu. You can remove a tag from a product by its edit page, or simply by long-pressing the tag in the product list. You can filter the list by a tag by pressing the search button and then the tag button in the upper right corner of the screen;
• You can now adjust the font size of the majority of elements of the app. Goto to the Settings page and select the Appearance tab: from there, you can adjust the font size of the text elements of the app to small, medium or big;
• Better support for tablets: now, when there is enough horizontal space, the products are listed in two or more columns;
• Search is now applied when you type: no need to press the search button anymore;
• Products’ context menu in the main page has been redesigned, and is now much clearer;
• You can now set the quantity of a product to 0 from its context menu, without automatically removing it from the list;
• You can now mark a product as opened the day before the current date from its context menu

Version 3.6 (April 2021)

• Russian translation
• Ukrainian translation

Version 3.5 (March 2021)

• It is now possible to search for a product by its barcode, either by starting the scan after pressing the search button, or by manually entering the code or part of it in the search box;
• Added last modified date to the product details page

Version 3.4 (January 2021)

• The app has now adapted to the authentication changes required by Dropbox;
• It is now possible to sort products by last modified;
• Ability to sort products by price;
• Display of the total quantity of a product (including any other packages) on its detail page;
• It is now possible to remove a product from the history of purchased products (it only works if the product has already been deleted from the main archive too)

Version 3.3 (December 2020)

• We have replaced the progress bar which showed the remaining quantity of the products with a slider by which you can also change it, and it is now visible even in the template that emphasize expiration dates, so that you can change the quantity of the products in both templates without opening their detail page. If you prefer the previous behavior you can change this in the settings;

• We have added the ability to export all the data of the app in a text file, available from the Import / Export page.

Version 3.2 (November 2020)

• We have eliminated the list of expiring product as a separate page. Now to see the list of expiring products you can just filter the main list, tapping on the “calendar with exclamation mark” icon in the toolbar. Tap it again or tap on the back button to return to the previous visualization. In this way the app use less memory and also is easier to perform operations and apply filters starting from a product in the expiring list.

• Added two arrows for fast scrolling the list of products that become visible when the list has more than 50 elements. By default the arrows scroll the list by 25 elements up or down but you can customize this in the settings page. You can also make them behave in order to bring you always to the bottom or to the top of the list with a single tap. If you don’t need this functionality you can also hide the arrows completely from the settings page.

• The containers button has been moved to the middle of the bottom navigation bar, in order to make it more accessible.

• The scrolling of the list should be a little bit smoother now.

Version 3.1 (October 2020)

• Notifications are now localized in the language in which the app is displayed.
• If you add a new product from a list filtered by container, that container is automatically assigned to the product you are creating.

Version 3.0 (October 2020)

• Dropbox integration: it is now possible to sign in into your Dropbox account to send the local data to your Dropbox with a single tap.
  The data can then be downloaded from another device, always with a single tap.
  The data is stored in a folder of your Dropbox called “Expiring Things”.
  Two new cloud-shaped icons are now visible in the upper navigation toolbar of the main page: the one with an upwards arrow is to upload data to Dropbox and the one with a downwards arrow is to download them.
  The new icons are disabled until you sign in to your Dropbox account. Also, they can become disabled in case there is no internet connection.
  If you don’t want to use Dropbox integration you can hide these new icons from the Settings page.
  When you make change to your local data the icon for uploading become orange until you upload them; conversely, if there are new data on Dropbox that were not uploaded with the device you are using, the icon to download become orange until you download them.

• We have added a maintenance tab in the Settings page, where you can delete all of your products or all of your data (please, be careful!).
  This can be useful e.g. in case you temporary change your location, and want to work with a different product list. You can now backup your data before moving, then clear all your data, insert the data relative to the new location, then restore the previous ones when you come back to your default location.

Version 2.18 (July 2020)

• Ability to display the app in one of the supported languages independently from the language of the device.

Version 2.17.2 (July 2020)

• Fixed a bug (introduced in v. 2.17.1) by which quantity of products was not reported correctly in the product details page.

Version 2.17.1 (July 2020)

• Added some buttons to make the input of expiration dates easier.

Version 2.17 (June 2020)

• Now, when entering a new product, you can pick it from a list of previously entered products. Tap on the three dots button on the right of the product name field to open that list.
• Improved support for RTL languages layout.

Version 2.16 (May 2020)

• We have changed the way to perform actions on products in the main page. Now, instead of long pressing an item to reveal options, just tap on it and a toolbar with some buttons will appear. With these buttons, you can perform the following actions (from left to right, or right to left, if your device is set in an RTL language):

  • Duplicate a product;
  • Edit a product;
  • View the details of a product;
  • Filter the list by product’s category, container or name;
  • Mark a product as opened;
  • Delete a product.

    If you don’t see all of the buttons, just swipe to the left to reveal the ones that are hidden.

• For those that have enabled the option “Consider a product as opened the first time you decrease its quantity”, you can now override this option for specific products, for which the concept of “opened” may not make sense. At the end of product’s creation page, check the option: “Do not automatically consider this product opened the first time I decrease its quantity”.

• Sensibly improved app startup time.

Version 2.15 (May 2020)

• Barcodes: you can now add products scanning their barcodes. Tap the barcode button in the bottom toolbar in the main page to start scanning a new barcode. The first time a user you scan a new code you will have to fill product details manually; from the next time some of these details (namely the name of the product, its category, its quantity and unit of measure) will be filled for you, taking them from the last scanning operation with the same code.

Version 2.13.2 (April 2020)

• It is now possibile to rename a category using the name of an existing one: this allow you to merge the products of two different categories in a single one.

Version 2.13 (April 2020)

• Added an option to keep products with 0 quantity in the app. This can be useful to keep track of when you bought a product for the last time or what was its price. This can also be useful to more quickly create a product, starting from an out of stock one.

Version 2.12 (March 2020)

• Added an option to ask for confirmation before quitting the app;
• Portuguese translation (Brazilian).

Version 2.11 (March 2020)

• Added similar products list in product page;
• Option to automatically consider products as opened the first time their quantity is reduced;
• You can now sort products by opened date;
• We now show a button to input the decimal separator near the Price field in product edit page, to workaround a bug in Samsung keyboard that prevents enter the decimal separator in some languages.
• Fixed a bug that caused a newly duplicated product to be marked as “opened” soon after creation.

Version 2.10 (February 2020)

• Option to show prices in main and expiring product list;
• Option to show an icon that indicates that a product has notes in main and expiring product list.

Version 2.9.1 (February 2020)

• Option to search also inside notes.

Version 2.9 (January 2020)

• Ability to choose the time of the daily notification for expiring / expired products;
• French translation.

Version 2.8.1 (January 2020)

• The app is now able to open the data files created by itself and shared via email / messaging app. Just tap the attachment and choose Expiring Things in the list of the app that can handle it (note: there are times when it doesn’t work if the app is already open in the background: if this happen to you, please close the app and then retry);

Version 2.8 (January 2020)

• Containers: it is now possible to indicate where the products are stored;
• Search: it is now possible to search for a product’s name or part of it.
• Context menu on a product in the product list page (accessible by long pressing on a product): the following items have been added: Filter by category, Filter by container, Filter by product’s name.
• Backward navigation in the product list page: if you filter the list in various subsequent ways (e.g. firstly by category, then by container, then by a search term) it is now possible to go back to the previous applied filters.

Version 2.7.1 (December 2019)

• Fixed a bug that caused the main list of products to be empty when opening the app from a notification.

Version 2.7 (December 2019)

• Spanish translation;
• New read-only view of the detail product page, for a better visibility of all of a product’s properties at a glance.

Version 2.6 (November 2019)

• Data migration to a new format
• After adding a new product or modifying an existing one, the list of products scrolls to show the added or modified product at the center of the screen.
• When creating a new product, property Initial Quantity is now correctly set to 1 instead of remaining empty.
• Improved support for RTL languages
• Fixed a bug that crashed the app if the language of the device was set to Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
• Small bug fixes.

Version 2.5 (November 2019)

• Ability to sort categories by drag and dropping them

Version 2.4 (October 2019)

• Ability to share a file containing the data created with the app with other apps (e.g. to send your list of products to a friend via email or messaging app, or to save your data file with a cloud storage app)
• Ability to open attachments created with this app from email or messaging apps
• Ability to receive files created with this app via system sharing from other apps
• Fixed a bug where categories weren’t refreshed after an importing operation

Version 2.3 (August 2019)

• Added About page

Version 2.2

• Added support for RTL languages;
• Added Price property to products details;
• In the view that emphasize quantity, added a progress bar that shows remaining quantity relative to initial quantity

Version 2.1

• Added Initial Quantity property to products details.
• Fixed a bug that crashed the app if the language of the device was set to Thai.

Version 2.0

• Redesigned UI, with bottom navigation tab bar.
• Ability to add new categories, and editing and deleting existing ones.
• Sorting can now be different between general list and expiring list.
• Improved Italian translation.

Version 1.0.2

• Fixed a bug that crash the app at startup if the language of the device was set to Indonesian (this was due to a discrepancy in the way Android and .net report the Indonesian culture code).

• Italian localization improved.