Something that we have trouble doing every day is keeping track of what we eat and snack on. We wanted to build a simple to use app that would allow us to scan what we eat and have it automatically track it for us.
The app keeps track of the calories, fat, protein etc. of the food we eat. You can scan in the nutrition label of the food you ingest, and it will automatically upload it to a firebase database so that the data is accessible from all your devices.
We made use of the Microsoft Azure image recognition software in order to extract the numbers of the different aspects of the food. Using android studio, we were able to create a simple and easy-to-use user interface so that everyone could use it, regardless of re
It was difficult for us to get the Azure image recognition to properly read the data from the nutrition label and once we got that working, it was difficult to parse the data. We also ran into trouble with the google login as it would fail while trying but we were able to fix it fairly easily.
We are proud of the graph that the app produces from the data it has gathered as it gives the user an idea of how they are eating and how consistent (or inconsistent) they are with their eating habits.
We learned how to properly make use of documentation and try out the sample code within them to get a sense of how something works.
We hope to streamline the process of adding foods to your list and also work on adding recognition for foods without labels.
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