Meal-Plan-Now
Android meal viewer application built for my CS-3332 - Software Engineering course.
Google Firebase, Firestore, the Anko library, and TheMealDB API were all used heavily.
This was a 4 person group project that I did entirely on my own.
What I Learned
- This project was my introduction to Kotlin, which the entire project is written in.
- Developed a user interface within a xml file using android UI components such as ScrollView, ListView, EditText, Button, etc.
- learned to parse and work with Json using gson as well as the built-in Json parser in Android.
- Introduction to Threads and Threading on Android. This was my largest hurdle. This was my first contact with AsyncTasks, & Coroutines for network calls and background work.
- The Anko library was used for AsyncTasks. This was later partially replaced by coroutines.
- Authentication was implemented using Firebase. Users can sign in with Email and Password.
- Attempted to implement Firestore for database integration. This was a hurdle that I was overcoming when the class came to and end.
- This project taught me the fundamentals of Git and Github.
My thoughts
This project taught me more than any other development project that I've ever attempted. This was intended to be a 4 person project, but i ended up writing 100% of the code. After the class ended, I became burnt out and put the project on hold. Even partially completed, I'm very proud of what I accomplished on this. On another note, this project taught me how much there still is out there to learn.