About Field Book
Field Book is a simple app for collecting phenotypic notes in the field. This has traditionally been a laborious process requiring handwriting notes and transcribing data for analysis. Field Book was created to replace...
Field Book is a simple app for collecting phenotypic notes in the field. This has traditionally been a laborious process requiring handwriting notes and transcribing data for analysis. Field Book was created to replace paper field books and to boost collection speed with increased data integrity.
Field Book uses custom layouts for different types of data that allow rapid data entry. Traits being collected are defined by the user and can be exported and transferred between devices. Sample files are provided with the installation.
Field Book is part of the broader PhenoApps initiative, an effort to modernize plant breeding and genetics data collection and organization via by developing new strategies and tools for data capture.
Development of Field Book has been supported by the Collaborative Crop Research Program of The McKnight Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture, and the United States Agency for International Development. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of these organizations.
An article describing Field Book was published in 2014 in Crop Science ( http://dx.doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2013.08.0579 ).
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Field Book since it was posted on our website on 2021-12-11 06:27:50.
The latest version is 6.2.2 and it was updated on 2026-06-10 20:20:51. See below the changes in each version.
Field Book version 6.2.2
Updated At: 2025-04-16
Changes: ✔ Primary/Secondary Order are no longer required when importing fields
✔ Updated Datagrid
✔ New and edited observations are italicized
✔ New Angle trait using accelerometer
✔ Settings can be shared between devices using Nearby Share
✔ User names are now saved in a list
✔ Device name can now be customized
✔ Improvements to the trait creation process
✔ Photos can now be cropped
✔ Trait layout improvements
✔ Quick GoTo setting replaced with dialog in Collect
✔ Numerous bug fixes and enhancements
Field Book version 6.0.7
Updated At: 2025-02-20
Changes: ✔ Access full add field menu via long-press
✔ geo_coordinates are now pulled in via BrAPI
✔ Replaced ffmpeg library with local version
✔ Numerous bug fixes and enhancements
Field Book version 6.0.6
Updated At: 2025-01-24
Changes: ✔ Numerous bug fixes and enhancements
Field Book version 6.0.5
Updated At: 2025-01-22
Changes: ✔ Search box added to field list
✔ BrAPI export no longer crashes when authentication token is expired
✔ Numerous bug fixes and enhancements
Field Book version 6.0.3
Updated At: 2025-01-09
Changes: ✔ Fields list updated to include bulk actions and individual field pages
✔ Data statistics added to each field
✔ App-wide statistics added to main screen
✔ Trait progress bar in Collect now shows individual traits
✔ Camera trait includes embedded preview
✔ App intro and setup process
✔ Preferences reorganized
✔ InfoBars now support wrapping and prefix replacement
✔ GoPro, USB, and Canon camera improvements
✔ Numerous bug fixes and enhancements
Field Book version 5.6.25
Updated At: 2024-10-17
Changes: ✔ New Trait Builder
✔ Improved theme for eInk devices
✔ Improved BrAPI Sync
✔ Observation metadata
✔ Datagrid and BrAPI sorting improvements
✔ Alpha individual fields
✔ Bug fixes and improvements
Field Book version 5.5.24
Updated At: 2023-11-03
Changes: ✔ New GoPro trait!
✔ Improved in-app update mechanism
✔ Bug fixes and performance improvements
✔ Search option selections saved for subsequent searches
✔ String and setting updates
✔ Merged move to unique ID settings
✔ GeoNav Updates
✔ Added preference to return to first trait
✔ Set require person default to true
✔ Coordinate order swapped to match ISO
✔ Added percent complete to Collect
Field Book version 5.5.16
Updated At: 2023-09-26
Changes: ✔ New GoPro trait!
✔ Improved in-app update mechanism
✔ Bug fixes and performance improvements
✔ Search option selections saved for subsequent searches
✔ String and setting updates
✔ Merged move to unique ID settings
✔ GeoNav Updates
✔ Added preference to return to first trait
Field Book version 5.3.0
Updated At: 2023-01-12
Changes: ✔ New USB camera trait!
✔ Added text-to-speech options when inputting data
✔ Updated how location is collected on a per phenotype basis
✔ Locking now has three input states: all data, new data, no data
✔ Updated GeoNav notification layout
✔ Updated language selection options
✔ Updated categorical/multicat trait creator
✔ Scanning barcodes searches across all fields
✔ Improved location and GNSS trait collection
✔ Bug fixes
Field Book version 5.0.7
Updated At: 2021-09-28
Changes: ✓ Date trait has calendar picker
✓ Improvements to Label Print Trait
✓ File management and import fixes
✓ BrAPI pagination fixes
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