An Application for Food and Cosmetic Expiration Notification

Abstract

            The study's objectives were as follows: 1) to create an application that alerts users to the expiration date of food and cosmetics The application notifies the expiration date of food and cosmetics 2) assess the effectiveness of food and cosmetic expiration notification applications and 3) assess user satisfaction. The researcher has created an app that alerts users when food and cosmetics are about to expire. The Android operating system is used. It was created using the Android Studio and Firebase as a database to store data and images of food and cosmetics. This study's target group consists of 5 computer experts with a master's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field and at least 3 years of program development experience, and 30 smartphone users who use Android mobile phones. Mean and standard deviation were the statistics used in the analysis of efficiency and satisfaction.

            According to the research findings, 1) obtain an application to notify the expiration date of food and cosmetics the main menu is divided into two sections, as follows: 1. the application's home page, which includes the menu, login, register, and user manual; 2. the application's main screen, which includes menus, home, search, add food and cosmetics information, and user information management. 2) According to the application performance evaluation results by 5 experts, the application to notify the expiration date of food and cosmetics performance assessment was at a very good level (  = 4.67, S.D. = 0.19), and 3) the satisfaction of the application users was found to be at a high level (  = 4.40, S.D. = 0.51).