Food for Thought

Inspiration

Our inspiration was an attempt to solve problems that we have personally run into. We wanted to solve the problem of deciding where to eat in a simple way that was more personal then the current offerings like Google maps, Uber Eats, or Door dash.

What it does

Food for Thought takes in several parameters on your eating preferences and searches the web for restaurants that are have similarities to your profile. Then it proceeds to send the user to a restaurant through Google Maps.

How we built it

We built this using Java in Android studio

Challenges we ran into

There were major challenges every step of the way. Most of the team were relatively new to coding and had limited experience which made it difficult to gain an initial foothold. None of us had any significant front end or UI experience and that was a huge hurdle as we had no idea where to start. We attempted using Figma but found out that it doesn't work very well when transferring to code. David also had not used GitHub before and accidentally overwrote his entire project the night before the submission date. learning how to use the Google API was also a difficult challenge. We also ran into an issue regarding constraints, or more specifically we didn't realize they were a thing. We found this out after completing our UI so we had to do some work-around.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The thing we are most proud of is that we were able to get past the first part and build something from nothing. 37 hours ago there was nothing, not even an idea and now we have an actual product that we worked together to build.

What we learned

We learned many different concepts related to android programming, google api and UI design. Being apart of the lifecycle of software creation was allowed us to have a good understanding of how the software team in the industry could function.