Opening Hours

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  In-N-Out

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  Jamba Juice

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  McDonalds

Inspiration

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many businesses have been forced to either close or minimize their business hours. As a result, many people are unsure when their favorite restaurants or shops are open, which is why I made Opening Hours.

What it does

Based on your search query, the app displays nearby businesses along with their opening hours for today. Further clicking on a business can show more details such as the opening hours for the duration of the whole week.

How I built it

Opening Hours was built using Dart and the Flutter framework. The businesses along with their opening hours are retrieved from the Google Places API.

Challenges I ran into

One major challenge I ran into was the search functionality. I picked up Flutter a few weeks ago and have only played around with it a couple of times so I wasn't quite sure how to make the search bar. I spent quite some time trying to create a real-time search bar however I quickly realized that it would spam the Google Places API with multiple requests so I decided on making a static search bar. Another challenge I ran into was finding an API that has data about opening hours. I only managed to find 2 APIs that had the data I needed, Yelp and Google. I tried using Yelp, however, it was much slower than Google's API and had a maximum amount of requests per second so I settled with Google Places API.

What's next for Opening Hours

In the future I'm planning on making a grid like widget that displays a business' opening hours in a more readable and natural format.

Built With

• dart
• flutter
• google-maps
• google-places