/eat-smart

Final assignment for CS426

Primary LanguageJava

EatSmart

An application for managing diets and searching recipes which meet certain critera. It also features real-time nutritional analysis of food images taken from device camera.

This application is developed in cooperation with a classmate for our school-based mobile development course.

Demo

EatSmart Demo

Screenshots

Features

  • Authentication with Facebook to store diets information
  • Many diet customizations, including name, diet type, excluded ingredients, calories, fat, carbs and protein.
  • Visual analysis of each diet by using progress circles.
  • Searching recipes based on diet customizations.
  • Details of each recipe, including source website and step-by-step instructions.
  • Adding and removing recipes with ease, either from diet management activity or recipes searching activity.
  • Many diets for each account. Only one is activated at a given time.
  • Real-time nutritional analysis of food images.

Applied Techniques

  • Clean Model-View-Presenter pattern with Dagger for dependency injection.
  • RecyclerView with StaggeredGridLayoutManager to obtain the look of Pinterest.
  • Using SnapHelper to snap items according to views.
  • Implementing OnLongClickListener to enable contextual menu when holding an item in RecyclerView.
  • Handling API calls with Retrofit.
  • Managing database with Firebase.

External Libraries, SDKs and APIs

Install and build

  • Clone the repo
  • Contact me for gradle.properties (which contains several API keys) and put it in root folder
  • Open the project in Android Studio
  • Build and run

Acknowledgements

  • This guy for his instructions on RecyclerView basics.
  • And this guy for his detailed guide on SnapHelper.