Inspiration
Relating from personal experience of seeing the amount of wait times in restaurants until your order is taken can be frustrating. Thus, we wanted to create a simple app to help restaurants keep track of customers that have been waiting too long for their order to be taken.
What it does
The app has a basic functionality of starting a timer every time a customer arrives at a table(represented by fast food icons) . Once the timer is up the icon turns red and an error message is displayed alerting the manager or the waiter as to which table needs assistance. After the issue has been dealt with icon can return to its initial state by double clicking on it. It also keeps a track of how many tables were kept waiting above the time limit.
How we built it
We used widgets in Flutter for building the main page and the icons. We used Android Studio to code.
Challenges we ran into
None of us had any prior experience with app development and this was our first time learning about Flutter and Android Studio. So we started from scratch reading libraries and trying to learn about each aspect of the process as and when we encountered the problem. During the initial setup we faced a lot of problems getting Android studio and Flutter SDK to work.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Completing an app with no prior experience is something that we are proud of though it is very basic in terms of functionality.
What's next for Timely Tables
Implementing Firebase for the login page. Also better animations and graphics for the warning system.
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