Our project will contain a mobile app that allows shoppers to view a list of items and the nutritional facts of the items in the cart. This week, I researched how to develop mobile apps and made a draft of the UI. The home page will be broken up into three sections. The first shows the total number of items, calories, and price at the top. The next section shows the macro breakdown with the total grams of protein, carbs, and fat. Finally, the third section will list out each product with the price and number of calories. When the user clicks on the gear in the top right, it brings them to the controls page, giving the user the option to start, stop, and disconnect from the cart.
To develop the app, I plan to use Xcode with Swift and SwiftUI to run the app locally on a phone. Core Bluetooth will be used to connect and facilitate communication between the app and the shopping cart, and Core Data will be used to make a local database of products.
Next week, I will start coding to create the basic framework for the app’s UI, which will be on track for our schedule.
