Inspiration
The market for chatbots in the past year has increased tenfolds (okay, I made that up ––but that isn't to say chat bots aren't an ever-growing market).
Introducing Calbot, A smart easy to use chatbot developed for the android platform that will help you count your calories. Talk to it using your voice and it will query all the foods you ate. Counting calories has never been so simple.
What it does
A chatbot to help you count your calories; the easiest and simplest way to keep track of your diet plan.
How I built it
Using Java, Android Studio and a lot of google.
Challenges I ran into
TOO MANY:
We couldn't build our original idea because someone took the hardware before us :(
Firebase wouldn't cooperate. (we fixed this!)
Idico didn't have the text processing functionality we needed so we wrote our own.
There was no dictionary for foods specifically, we had to implement our own to filter our speech and to search through a database.
Android Studio XMLS we're being really clunky.
Lack of Sleep.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
First Java App! We finished and got to demo; we did alright!
What I learned
You can do a lot in 24 hours.
What's next for CalBot
Daily reminders; better integration of artificial intelligence for better conversations; data analysis to cater to individual users; exercise & motivational features; better database; etc.
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