SKIP-THE-LINE

Inspiration

It is very common to skip a meal when students decide to grab a quick bite from restaurants on campus, only to see a line that stretches too long. Our inspiration for building this application is to help students with a new tool to make their life a little bit easier. This way, they can use their limited free time between their classes more efficiently. They can order their food remotely and shortcut the entire eating-out process.

What it does

This application focuses on the students' struggles to have meals in the limited time between classes. It provides a full pickup interface that helps students to place their order remotely and pick it up when the food is ready or at their earliest convenience. This application has two interfaces. The first one is the student interface, in which they can place an order. The latter is the vendors' interface, where they can manage their dishes and order status placed by students.

How we built it

We developed the code in Java language, XML and thought through how database could be implemented into the application. We spent A LOT OF TIME on the UI and design of the app as we are fairly new to making apps on Android Studio and were very fascinated with the cool sidebar animations we could employ.

Challenges we ran into

Time was a huge concern as we underestimated the effort it takes to build a fully functional app, implementing a database, etc. We are also all very inexperienced in building apps and designing in general. However, it was a really exciting process for us as we had a lot of fun spending sleepless nights coding (and sleeping on tables) and bickering with one and other.