📱 Menu Translate AI - MenuSnap

🚀 Inspiration

This project was inspired by my need when I travel. Last month I went to Japan, and sometimes there were restaurants where it was only in Japanese or in english but without a picture to image what would you get. I wanted to address this problem and create this app to help me decide what to eat when I don't know what to expect in a foreign country.

🛠️ How I Built It

I built this project using:

• React Native with EXPO.
• For vision model I used Gemini and for image generation I used Flux.

The app’s main features include:

• Scan any menu and translated in any language you want (we support 12 right now).
• Get estimated calories of each dish.
• Get images of each dish.

The development process involved designing UI components, integrating backend services, and testing across various devices.

📚 What I Learned

Throughout this project, I learned:

• How to use EAS to manage builds and submissions.
• How to develop in React Native and EXPO as it was my first time doing it.
• How to ask for feedback in X and improve my app based on feedback.

⚔️ Challenges Faced

Some of the biggest challenges were:

• Configuring Apple provisioning profiles correctly for EAS builds
• Managing different build targets for iOS devices vs. the simulator
• Optimizing performance to reduce load times.
• Handling edge cases with Flux.

Each of these challenges taught me valuable lessons and made the final product more robust.

🌟 Conclusion

This project helped me grow as a developer and gave me confidence in deploying production-grade apps with Expo and React Native. I’m excited to keep improving it and sharing it with others!

Built With

• expo.io
• firebase
• reactnative
• revenuecat