Inspiration
Everybody eats and in college if you are taking difficult classes it is often challenging to hold a job. Therefore as college students we have no income during the year. Our inspiration came as we have moved off campus this year to live in apartments with full kitchens but the lack of funds to make complete meals at a reasonable price. So along came the thought that we couldn't be the only ones with this issue, so..."what if we made an app where all of us could connect via a social media platform and share and post our meals with the price range attached to it so that we don't have to come up with good cost effective meals on our own".
What it does
Our app connects college students, or anyone that is looking for a great way to find good cost effective meals and doesn't want to come up with the meals on their own, by allowing everyone to share their meals and create an abundant database of food.
How we built it
We used android studio to create the application and tested the app using the built in emulator to see how the app was coming along when viewed on the phone. Specifically we used an MVVM design to interweave the functionality with the graphical display of the app.
Challenges we ran into
The backend that we were familiar with ended up not working well for us, so we had to transition over to another backend holder called back4app. We also were challenged with the user personal view and being able to save the users data all the time.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of all the work that we put into the application in a very short amount of time, and learning how to work with a new backend during the same time so that everything worked as intended. We are proud of the process and organization we had throughout the project, beginning with a wire frame and building our way up part by part until the finished project.
What we learned
We learned how to work with drop down menus to hold multiple values of possible data for the user to choose from. And for one of our group members learned how to work with app development on the full size scale.
What's next for Forkollege
In version 2.0 we plan on implementing a better settings page that allows the user to change their password, we also plan on fixing the for you page specifically for each recipe displayed we were not able to come up with a way to showcase the number of $ sign's and instead opted for using stars again. As an outside user this is a little confusing, so updating this aspect is of the most importance.
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