fauu/Calorie

[Retired] Calorie tracker for elementary OS, built with Vala and GTK

Calorie

Calorie was an alpha-stage calorie tracker for elementary OS, written in 2013, retired in 2014.

Other screenshots

• Adding food diary entry
• Customizing meal names

Techonology

• Vala language w/ Libgee collection library
• GTK 3 GUI toolkit with Granite extension
• SQLite database
• CMake build system

What used to be the TODO list

• Proper release
• i18n
• Daily/weekly/monthly goals
• Saving predefined meals
• Calorie intake history chart
• Integration with USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
• …

Installation

Note: The following instructions were compiled in 2013.

Dependencies

• valac
• libgee-0.8-dev
• libgtk-3.0-dev
• libgranite-dev
• libsqlite3-dev

Compilation

Refer to the build_and_run_local.sh bash script.

You might need to create ~/.local/share/calorie directory as a temporary fix if the application reports that it has failed to create the database.

License

See the COPYING file.