Calorie Calculator [Android]

A simple application for Android that is gradually increasing in complexity.

Currently the software is in its early stages of development, so although it works, it doesn’t really do a whole lot just yet. What it does is to make you choose your preferred type of measurements, then asks for your basic stats (or someone else you’re calculating them for), and at the press on Calculate, it will calculate various stats, which I will list shortly. In the future I’m hoping to add even more features to the application, that will make it easier to use, and more useful.

Supported Measurements

• Metric system: Used in most of the world according to Wikipedia.
• Imperial system: These are used in a few places, but mainly in the UK, despite an official switch to the metric system.
• US customary system: Essentially the same as imperial, especially for the measurements needed in this app, but without the use of stone when measuring weight.

What does it calculate?

• Caloric Burn: If you want to lose (or gain) weight, or even maintain your weight, keeping track of your caloric intake can be one way to do it. In order to do so, though, you need to know how many calories (or kilo-calories actually) you burn in a single day. That’s what this application calculates, showing the results for the five levels of activity, although currently it doesn’t actually explain what the different activity levels mean. Still, it’s what the program was originally created for, calculating these numbers, I mean.
• BMI: While BMI (Body Mass Index) is horribly inaccurate in many cases, due to it having been created back in the 1800s based solely on people who lived then, it’s still in wide use today, and can be used as a very loose guide to how much you should aim for when trying to lose (or gain) weight. The inaccuracies of BMI are important enough that I’ve included warnings about it in the software.
• Ideal Weight: These are all based on BMI, and thus suffers from the aforementioned inaccuracies. But it will tell you which weight range BMI wants you to be in, and what the midpoint is. It will also tell you if that makes you under or over weight, and by how much.
• Other: Finally, it will use a loose approximation, based on a caloric deficit of between 500 and 1000 kcal to determine how long it’ll probably take you to shed your excess weight. Again, these are merely approximations, and should be taken lightly.

Who would use it?
I originally created it for myself, and partially for my brother, since we occasionally need to calculate caloric burn, but anyone with an interest in calories in relation to weight loss or gain, could use it. In its current form, however, it may not really be useful very often. As with most tools/utilities its usability and use frequency depends on need.

Changelog
You can find this on the dedicated Changelog page

More info
The main project page, with information on versions and issues, can be found on this Redmine-based site.