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10 Responses to “Groceries MIDlet”

1. Kyle Stemen Says:
   June 9th, 2005 at 10:02

   First of all, I have to admit I don’t own a PDA or cell phone (I don’t talk enough on phones to justify it yet), but I have thought about what a good grocery type app could do on a PDA.

   I think it would be useful if the program could keep track of the prices of items in the store. Nothing too fancy like a barcode reader, just a way for the user to enter in the item name, price, and store name. Then when you’re in some grocery store, you could look at an item on the shelf, enter it in its price, and see how it compares to prices from other shopping trips and other stores.

   Maybe the program could synchronize with a computer if the data got too large. Or even synchronize over the internet with other users. It might even be able to pick which nearby store would be the cheapest for the items in your grocery list.

   Just some ideas, although they might be a bit too hard…

2. Tommi Laukkanen Says:
   June 9th, 2005 at 20:46

   Thank you for the great ideas! The pricing feature sounds like a very good idea and wouldn’t be too difficult thing to implement (without the synchronizing part). This way the user could check how much his/hers groceries are going to cost as the items would have the pricing property set to them.

   When editing the grocery list the user would just pick items from the items catalogue and could change the current store to compare the list’s price between entered stores. The user could manage the item and store catalogues from the separate views.

   If I would have a spare J2EE server it would also be nice to try out the synchronization part… :)

3. Srgjan Srepfler Says:
   May 17th, 2006 at 19:04

   Hi,
   I’ve noticed the download links don’t work anymore?

4. Tommi Laukkanen Says:
   May 17th, 2006 at 20:34

   Thanks for pointing that out. My site was hacked few weeks ago and some of the scripts are still broken. The download links should now work.

5. Mayank Says:
   February 20th, 2008 at 14:32

   your applications are great. i got ur link by google. now i download all ur applications for R&D. i am working in j2me gamming but i want to swich gamming to application bcoz i am crazzy about applications. so your application will help me a lot for study the jsrs and their implementations.

   if u have some other links from which i can download th application for study purpose then please send it to me my mail id mayank.be.mib@gmail.com

   Thanks & Regards
   Mayank Kumar Varshney
   India

6. Nuno Ricardo Says:
   March 27th, 2008 at 22:30

   In fact, Kyle Stemen is right: software to compare prices between stores is a valuable tool. I have been searching for a free software like that, but I still have not found one. Making a spreadsheet in Excel isn’t practical, I’ve tried that. I’m still hoping someone develop a software to do this.

7. pan mietek Says:
   July 9th, 2008 at 00:02

   hi
   great one.
   One thing badly needed - export list or directly send it via the bluetooth
   Now i could easy share (get) shopping lists from my wife’s phone and alway have all of the list.
   Is it possoble to add this feature to this application?

8. Tommi Laukkanen Says:
   July 10th, 2008 at 23:26

   @pan: Thanks! I have few ideas for handling the shared shopping lists. I have already started coding a web app that for example my wife and I could use during the day and when I leave the office I would sync the shopping list to my phone and start shopping. So I’d say that this feature is coming, but not in the near future…

9. pan mietek Says:
   July 11th, 2008 at 13:47

   thx for the answer. I;m patient man, i can wait :).
   Is there any kind of the newsletter on your website? If it is, please put my e-mail into it, ’cause i wouln’t like to miss changes in your applications (which i recognize as very handy btw)
   regards

10. Tommi Laukkanen Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 14:36

    @pan: I usually announce new versions with blog entries. You can subscribe to my blog RSS feed by clicking the “Entries (RSS)” link in the bottom of the page.

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