DZ - EatMewls

Tired of deciding where to eat? Let EatMewls decide for you!

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Team Members

619, Khong Jia Wei
620, Tan Zhao Tong
639, Ivan Christian
668, Tan Wei Jin

Inspiration

Inspired by situations where friends and/or family have trouble deciding where to eat together, we decided to build a fun mobile app that does the decision making for them!

What it does

Users simply decide the area that they wish to dine in (For example, Jurong East, Dhoby Ghaut, Tampines, Paya Lebar, Serangoon) and the app’s randomizer will select a food establishment nearby for them to dine in. The user may also filter by the food establishments’ ratings (from 1 to 5 based on Google Maps) as well as the furthest distance from the selected area’s MRT station (from 200m up to 1km). The information comes complete with its address and the option to open in Google Maps to provide clear directions. If the random choice is disliked by most members of the group, there is even an option to reroll it!

How we built it

We used Android Studio and Java to develop the main UI/UX of our android mobile application and Google’s Places API to obtain the relevant data of the food establishments nearest to the selected location.

Challenges we ran into

Working with Google’s Places API was new for us, so it took us a lot of time to learn how to use it. There was also a limited amount of food establishments we could query from each search, limiting the possible suggestions that can be provided to the user. We have worked with Android Studio before, but not having worked with it for a while, it took us some time to build the UI up to our expectations.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It works!

What we learned

How to use the Google’s Places API and how to craft a better mobile app UI.

What's next for EatMewls

More locations and the ability to filter by price ranges. Add functionality for members of the group to approve/disapprove of the random choice on their own mobile devices.

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