Track Your Snack

What the customer sees first
The progress bars represent the category's portion of the total servings
Customers can search for their food and all selections with that phrase in the database will pop up for the customer to select
At the end of the shopping trip, the results page gives a recap of the percentages of the categories and provides positive feedback
Here are one of many fun facts that educate the customer!
Customers can cancel their addition in this confirmation alert
Here is a small snippet of code from MIT App Inventor

Inspiration

Healthy eating is a very common choice but very difficult to keep up, especially on a tight budget. Eating healthy starts in the store, not once you get home. We want to facilitate a better relationship between the store and the customers, where the customers are encouraged to purchase healthy foods and the stores can benefit by retaining customers. We want people to see healthy eating as exciting, attainable, and fun!

What it does

Track Your Snack incentivizes customers to make healthy choices through a fun and interactive interface where they can visualize their goals being achieved as they shop. We want to reward customers for making healthy choices by giving them discounts in their favorite grocery store. Customers can search and select the items as they put them in the cart. The healthier the choices, the more points they get.

The colorful display of the percentage of healthy foods and the reward points system give customers the positive feedback they need to continue living a healthy and sustainable life. Fun facts under every item entry keeps the customer informed and ready to learn more about healthy choices.

How we built it

We used MIT App Inventor to create an Android application with over 5 screen pages and a database to store customer data search results.

Challenges we ran into

Before this idea, we were running into faulty Arduinos and applications that were not downloading correctly. As we started Track Your Snack, we had to adapt to the coding environment of MIT App Inventor. The style was very different and the tools (TinyDB, etc) were unfamiliar at first. Throughout the night, we overcame those challenges and all contributed to the overall project.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting over that first speed bump of ideas and submitting at the end of the Hackathon. We stayed the whole night and learned a lot about application development, database interactions, and facts about healthy foods.

What we learned

We learned how to use MIT App Inventor and how to all code together as a team. These skills are very important in the real world, where you do not code alone. We learned how to overcome obstacles; when ideas failed, we rose back up with more ideas and never gave up.

What's next for Track Your Snack

We’d love to make more improvements on the app, such as a better item removal process as well as the ability to personally set percentage goals for healthy foods. We’d love to work with local supermarkets and bring our idea to their customer base to improve the health and happiness of all.

Built With

Submitted to

HackRU Spring 2018

Created by

I worked on the results page of the Track Your Snack App. I learned MIT App Inventor and I tested the app on an Android phone. I learned a lot about working on a team!

sunnyfeng
I worked on the layout of the app and the ways that the different screens within the app interact with each other. I wrote the code for the search page, and I helped write the code for the serving input page and main data display page. I also helped with the late-night brainstorming sessions and trips to Taco Bell.

Natalie Neamtu
I worked on the back end of the software and helped contribute and form the idea and final product.

James Pasko
I worked on creating the idea and big picture goals.

Kevin Malar