cyra/FoodOrderingApp

Maintenance

How to add new restaurants, food items, and images into the app

Adding a restaurant

To add a restaurant, it is required to provide a restaurant image.

Add a restaurant image

Requirements:

• Image file must be square, minimum 250 * 250pixels
• Image file must have an extension of either .pngor .jpg
• Image file naming convention must be prefixed by restaurant_ followed by the restaurant name. e.g. restaurant_hungry_zaks.❗NOTE: filename must be unique

1. Navigate to app/src/main/res/drawable
2. Add in the image file in the drawable directory

Adding the restaurant to the database

1. In the app’s main folder open the file model/restaurant/RestaurantsList.java
2. Scroll to the bottom of the class, and inside the addAll() method, create a new restaurant item. The format is as follows:

   this.addRestaurant(new Restaurant(getSize(), "Restaurant Name", "restaurant_img"));

   Where:
   • RESTAURANTNAME is a data type String, name of the restaurant
   • restaurant_img is the filename, minus the file extension.

Adding a food item

To add a food item, it is required that the restaurant has been added, and that the food item has an image associated with it in the drawables folder

Add a food item image

Requirements:

• Image file must be square, minimum 250 * 250pixels
• Image file must have an extension of either .pngor .jpg
• Image file naming convention must be prefixed by food followed by the food name. e.g. food_baconator. ❗NOTE: filename must be unique

1. Navigate to app/src/main/res/drawable
2. Add in the image file in the drawable directory

Adding a food item to the database

1. In the app’s main folder open the file model/fooditem/FoodItemList.java

2. Scroll to the bottom of the class, and inside the addAll() method, create a new food item. The format is as follows:

   // Restaurant Name
   this.addFoodItem(new FoodItem(getSize(), "Food Name", "Food Description", 0.0, "food_img", RESTAURANT_ID));

   Where:

   • Food Name is a data type String, name of the food item
   • Food Description is a data type String, description of the food item
   • 0.0 is of data type double, price of a single food item
   • food_img is the filename, minus the file extension.
   • RESTAURANT_ID is the name of the restaurant the food item belongs to, prefixed with _ID_

3. At the top of the addAll() method, add the int that ill be linked to the restaurant ID

final int RESTAURANT_ID  = 10;

Where:

• RESTAURANT_ID is the restaurant ID that was added in point 2.
• 10 is the succession of restaurants ID integers in the database. For each restaurant, increment this value by one.