Food Log Change Log

Food Log Changes

1.11.2

Fix bug introduced in last version that causes "Food Log stopped" messages sometimes when the time zone is changed.

1.11.1

Ad-supported: Fix bug that caused a crash in the Settings screen.
Fix some buttons that allowed multiple presses before responding.
Fix calorie counting bug in Entry Editor.
Some other minor changes.

1.11

Ad-supported: Switch to new advertising platform MoPub. Please see their privacy policy by following the links from here.
Properly handle foods with zero calories. Previous versions made no distinction between foods with 0 calories or foods that have not had calorie information entered. Now, you will see a blank space in the Food Editor's Calorie setting if the food does not have calorie information.

In addition, if calorie counting is turned on in the Settings, the calorie counts will have an asterisk (*) if any of the foods do not have their calories entered in the database.
The Settings (calorie limits, hide time zone setting) are now exported and imported from CSV files.
Some minor enhancements.

1.10.1

Fix bug in saving templates.
Hopefully fix a transient bug that sometimes happens when a date is first selected in the Calendar screen.
Fix a calorie highlighting bug in the Entry Editor.
Update compiler settings to use target SDK 28 per Google requirements. Also update supporting libraries to latest versions.

1.10

Created an ad-free version of Food Log that users can buy. The "Food Log - Ad Free" app works exactly the same as ad-supported "Food Log" except it does not show any ads.
Fix some merge bugs with time zones and entries with no foods.
Add clipboard paste capability for ingredient names in Food Editor. This capability was lost when the ingredient rename feature was added a few versions ago.
In the Food Editor, now you can search for other foods that contain an ingredient.
New feature Entry Templates let you store and recall frequently used sets of foods for entries. For example, if most days you have a breakfast with cereal, milk, toast, and eggs, you can save those in a template. When in the Entry Editor you can load the template which will fill out the foods, number of servings and notes from the template. See the User's Manual for more info.
In the Calendar screen, long-pressing the "Add Entry" button now acts like the "New Entry" button from Main screen - it creates an entry for the current time and date, no matter what the selected date is in the calendar.

A normal press on the "New Entry" button will still work the same as it did before - creating an entry for the selected date in the calendar.
Change the file chooser used to select a file when merging.
A few other minor bug fixes.

1.9.3

Fix bug that caused a crash in the Search screen when multiple Food / Ingredient rows were added then some were deleted.

Generally, do a better job of handling focus changes in the Entry Editor, Food Editor and Search screens.
Set targetSdkVersion to 26 per Google requirements.
The advertiser's privacy policy has been updated. See this link for their privacy policy. (The Food Log privacy policy has not changed.)

1.9.2

Fix bug introduced in version 1.9.1 where changing the device time zone would sometimes show a "Food Log has stopped" message when Food Log is not running.

1.9.1

In cases where the app was put in the background but was killed by the system to free memory, if the app is restarted in the Calendar screen in portrait orientation it did not show any data. Fixed.
The Calendar screen and the Search Results screen did not handle the device's time zone changing correctly. Fixed.
A certain sequence of actions involving help mode in the Food Search screen could cause the food or ingredient auto complete list to be shown in the wrong screen. Fixed.
In the Entry Editor, in some cases, when in help mode any new foods were still editable. Fixed.
In the Entry and Food Editors, when editing an existing entry or food, rotating the device caused editor to lose the lock on the entry or food. This could have caused some changes to be lost if the same entry/food was edited multiple times. Fixed.

1.9

In the Calendar screen, when the device is in portrait orientation the calendar and entries are now shown in different tabs, instead of having the calendar on top and entries on the bottom. This will show the entries better for smaller devices.
Attempt to fix a sporadic bug that causes the app to crash because it cannot save or restore its internal state.
Now supports content:// URIs from other apps. These are sometimes used when you use another app to send a CSV file to Food Log to import or merge it into the database.
Use the latest version of AppLovin SDK to display ads.
Other small enhancements.

1.8

Fix bug that sometimes caused Food Log to crash when restarting. This happened when the Food Log app is put into the background and other apps are run. If the device gets low on memory it will terminate apps in the background. If the user tries to go back to the Food Log app it would crash.
Added an option in the Settings screen to hide time zones - entry times will be displayed without the time zone.
A few other small bug fixes.

1.7

Entries now have a time zone associated with them. By default all new entries will use the device's time zone, but if you are travelling across time zones and your device does not automatically adjust its time zone, you can change the entry's time zone to the correct one.
You can also change the time zone of old entries. Old entries' time zones are set to the device's time zone when you first run this version of Food Log.
Relaunching the app from the home screen takes you to the last Food Log screen displayed instead of the main menu. In versions 1.4 through 1.6.1 relaunching from the home screen would always take you back to the main menu.
When merging CSV files into the database you can now pick the CSV file through a file chooser instead of typing in the path to the file.
Added some shortcuts to get to the Search screen. In the Food Editor, long-pressing the name of the food or an ingredient of the food can take you to the Search screen to search for entries containing that food or ingredient.
A side effect of this is that now it is possible to edit the same food or entry more than once. If this happens the Food or Entry Editor will go into read-only mode; you can only view the food or entry details, no changes are allowed.
The Food Editor now allows you to rename an ingredient. This change takes effect in all foods that use that ingredient.
Many other small bug fixes.

1.6.1

Improved support for right-to-left layouts.
Changes in supporting libraries between versions 1.4 and 1.5 meant that devices that use a right-to-left language now display the screens right-to-left too. This led to some bugs such as the food name completion window not being displayed properly. These bugs were still present in version 1.6.
This update fixes some simple problems in right-to-left layouts, but the app has not been translated to any other languages, it is still (mostly) English only. However, you can enter data in any language.

1.6

Use updated libraries to fix a bug that caused a crash. This might make some user interface elements display and behave slightly differently on some devices.
Use new permissions system on Android 6 and 7 that asks for permissions when run, not when installed.
Fix two crashes that happened when the Entry Editor was started and device gets a configuration change (i.e. device rotated) immediately.
Added a couple of menu options in the Calendar screen to generate a report, and compute average daily calories. These both work on date ranges. A date range is defined by selecting a date by pressing it, then selecting a second date by long-pressing it. The first and second dates and all the dates in between are highlighted and can be used by either operation. (The old method of generating reports - long-pressing on a date and entering the number of days to report on - no longer works.)
The entry lists now show the foods for an entry. Previously they only showed the number of foods in the entry.
A few other small enhancements and bug fixes.

1.5

Food Log is using a different ad network now (AppLovin).
Food Log now has a formal Privacy Policy. View it here. Nothing has changed from previous versions with regard to how data is handled by Food Log. The major difference is that the app now uses a different ad network so the new network's privacy policy applies starting with this version.
Added a menu option in the Food Editor to write a report with the food's details. The report is an HTML file that can be viewed using HTML viewer apps (like web browsers which are already installed in most devices). Some HTML viewing apps will allow you do things like email or print the file too.
Added a menu option in the Calendar screen to view the last generated entries report.
A calorie meter has been added to the main screen. The meter visually shows your calorie intake for the day.
The Entry Editor now highlights calories in yellow or red if the day's calories go over your normal or high calorie limits.
Added a shortcut from the food search results list to the Search screen. This allows you to quickly search for entries that use a certain food without going back to the main screen.
Fix bug that failed to preserve newlines in notes when writing entries to HTML file.
A few other small enhancements and bug fixes.

1.4

Added ability to jump to a month and year in the calendar.
Now Food Log can generate an HTML report of entries for a given number of days from the calendar screen.
Added merging of Food Log data from another source into the existing database. One way to use this is if you have multiple devices with Food Log installed. Any entries you make in one device can be added to other devices without overwriting their data. There are some limitations with this feature so please read the manual before using it.
Now other apps (e.g. Dropbox) can hand CSV files to Food Log to import or merge into the database.
Fix bug where calendar data was not reloaded if device was rotated while sleeping.

1.3

Fix a bug in the Entry Editor which caused a crash when filling in a blank food row above the last row.
Entry lists now show the number of foods in the entry and the total number of calories for that entry.
If color coding in the calendar is turned on (by setting the calorie limits in the Settings screen), when a day is selected, that day's color will highlight the entry list.
Fixed some bugs with orientation handling in the Settings screen.
The Settings screen now shows the current values of the normal and high calorie limits.
The Calendar screen now has a menu item to go directly to the Settings screen to adjust calorie limits.

1.2.1

On small devices in landscape mode, the editor for the servings field did not display the right default value.
On small devices in landscape mode, sometimes touching the servings field did not bring up the editor.
The servings field always defaulted to 1.0 if you tried to save an entry with a blank field, even if the value had been changed previously to something else.
Fix crash that happened if you rotate the device while a servings field is blank.
Fix bug in Entry Editor that sometimes allowed changing the names of foods already saved for an entry.
Fix bug in Entry Editor that said an entry was modified if the servings field was touched but not changed.

1.2

Now you can import the Food Log database from a previously exported CSV file. This allows you to back up the database to a CSV file and restore it later, if for example you wanted to move the app and database to a different android device, or you accidentally did a bulk delete on the wrong date.
Note that importing will erase any changes you have made since the CSV file was created.
The CSV file format has been slightly changed from the previous version. This version can still import CSV files written with the previous version.
The servings field in the Entry Editor will now erase the previous value when the user starts to enter a new value. The user doesn't have to erase the old value manually anymore.
Fixed some bugs that caused crashes or inconsistent data shown when the device's orientation was changed.
Fixed the alignment of foods in the Entry Editor screen and ingredients in the Food Editor screen so that the bottoms of the fields in each row are aligned.
In the previous version the advertisement was sometimes shown in the middle of an activity. Now the advertisement is shown the first time a main menu button is pressed, then when it is dismissed the app's next screen is shown.
Other small features and bug fixes.

1.1.1

Fix bug that prevented a food already associated an entry from being removed from that entry.
The advertisement is now shown when one of the main menu buttons is first pressed, instead of being shown when exiting the app. This is to be compliant with Android advertising guidelines.
A few other minor bug fixes and enhancements.

1.1

New help system. Pressing the "?" on the action bar will make the screen go into Help Mode. In this mode, pressing any of the on-screen controls will show a message about what that control does.
Enhanced searching by notes. Now, searching for entries with certain words in notes is much faster and more powerful (though this increases the size of the database). See the User's Manual for examples of new searches you can do.
Now you can search for a food by notes as well as by name and by ingredient.
When search results are displayed in the calendar or as a list the search criteria are displayed at the top.
When searching for entries with certain foods / ingredients, if you enter multiple items, each item may now match either a food or ingredient.
For example, let's say you are searching for entries with foods / ingredients A, B and C. In previous versions of FoodLog an entry would match only if it had foods A, B and C or if the entry's foods' ingredient list had ingredients A, B and C. You could not mix searching for foods and ingredients; A, B and C had to be all food names or all ingredient names. Now, an entry will match if it has either foods and/or ingredients named A, B and C.
Various other small enhancements and bug fixes.

1.0.2

Fix crash when the device's orientation changed while the "Save Changes?" dialog was displayed in both Entry Editor and Food Editor.
Fix crash when the name of an existing food was entered in the Food Editor and the device reoriented.
Fix bug that caused multiple "Name Conflict" dialogs to appear while in the Food Editor when the device was reoriented.
Make welcome dialog scrollable. Before, on small devices the "Don't show this again" checkbox was not visible.
Fix crash when device reoriented while welcome message was shown.
Use smaller main menu font size on smaller devices.
Fix bug that reset an entry's date and time when device reoriented.
Fix bug that interfered with loading ad when 'Back' button was pressed multiple times.

1.0.1

Fix bug that prevented ad from showing.

1.0

First public release.