I’m looking for testers for a closed Google Play test of a shopping list app for Home Assistant.

The app connects directly to your Home Assistant instance and is aimed at making shared shopping lists simpler and faster to use on mobile.

Current features:

  • Connects to your Home Assistant instance
  • Displays and manages your shopping list
  • Add, check, sort, rename and remove items quickly
  • Access to all lists configurated in your HA instance
  • Automatic sync with Home Assistant
  • Offline caching

If you’d like to join the test, please send me your Google Play email address via private message. I’ll then send you the opt-in link.

Edit: Testers just need to install the app and keep it on their phones for 14 days. (Really, that’s all that google asks for…). Only after that I’m allowed to publish it.

Edit2: It’s also available on github: https://github.com/robNice/HA-ShopList

Just don’t install the playstore-apk, as that version lacks the in app updates via github.

Testers I found so far: 3/12

  • Mark Gjøl@mstdn.dk
    4·
    6 days ago

    @HairyHarry I would want three things:

    1. Group groceries by category, so when I’m in the super market, I just have to look at the section I’m in, rather than scan through the entire list every time.
    2. Recurring groceries, like milk or butter.
    3. The ability to add recipes, so if I decide that this week we want butter chicken, I can just add that and the ingredients will be expanded.
    • HairyHarry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Points 2. and 3.

      It already has multi list support. I’m using Mealie as a recipe portal which is also integrated into my HA instance. Mealie shopping lists are send automatically to HA as a shopping list and available in the app.

      The app also rememberes already entered entries and provides an auto complete while typing.

      Anyways:

      I NEED TESTERS!

    • HairyHarry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      It’s currently awaiting a review on Fdroid, so yeah. Just no idea how long it still takes.

      And it’s indeed OSS. I added the github link in the post.

  • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    7 days ago

    If it’s Android only you’re ignoring the majority of the smartphone market in the US

    • lewiks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      7 days ago

      No idea if OP is in the same situation as I am, but when I tried to develop apps for both android and ios, I quickly discarded ios support due to needing to buy some mac and a license to ever think of deploying the application. I don’t own a single apple machine so that would be a massive upfront cost for what I wanted to be a free application

      • HairyHarry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        13·
        7 days ago

        Exactly this. Licensing costs for the app store alone are a hundred bucks / year. That’s silly for a free app.

    • HairyHarry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      Could do that. First I need 12 testers before I can send this initial release to the playstore.

      I will collect feature requests and implement them in future releases if they are reasonable and me not too dumb to write them.

      Edit: There no longer is an API for the list feature in Alexa. Amazon killed it 2024. Fuckers.