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The SubstanceReviews app for Android is now available, free of charge, on Google Play.  It allows you to navigate much of the information available on this website.

Following up from our previous post, here are a few more of the screenshots from the app, as it would look on a Google Nexus 4 running Jelly Bean.

 

Main screen

The main screen is divided into 3 tabs: Brands, Goals, and Ingredients.  Since we showed you these tabs in our last post, we'll just focus on what's new for the release.

 

Popular Brands

We've added a Popular Brands item at the beginning in the Brands tab.  It allows you to quickly navigate to the respective brand pages.

Product search

We realized that the app wouldn't be too useful without a product search feature, so we made sure it's there. You can search for a product by a keyword in its name.

Product screen

Last time we gave you a sneak peek at the app; this time you get to see most of the rest.  Here is the main product screen, showing the image, description, and 3 of the possible 6 buttons.  The other buttons (not shown) are: Average Ratings, User Reviews, and Write a Review.  If there are no reviews, prices, side effects, or ingredients, then some of the buttons may be disabled or not present.


User reviews screen

This is where you can see all the reviews of the product.

Review screen

This is the screen for an individual review.  You can scroll the review text, as well as the ratings that the reviewer has given to the product.  You can also submit feedback about whether you found the review helpful.

Reported side effects screen

This screen shows you the side effects that were reported by the reviewers.  It shows you the side effect, together with the number of users that reported it, and the percentage of the total number of reviews.

Prices screen

This screen shows you the retailers in our database that carry the product, for all of the container sizes that it is available in.  It is sorted in order of best price per serving, taking into account the container size.

Ingredients screen

This screen shows you pretty much what you would see on the product label.

Conclusion

By this point we've shown you almost every screen in the app.  We hope you download it and make good use of it, and also contribute a review or three, since the quality of the data you see in the app depends on reviews and ratings contributed by users such as yourself.

Comments and feedback are, of course, welcome.


 
 
 
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