MealUp - Meal Scheduling App

COS 333 Spring 2018

jump to section: the team, design doc, timeline, elevator speech

Team Members:
Andrew Zeng ([email protected]) - LEADER
Annie Zou ([email protected])
Chi Yu ([email protected])
May Jiang ([email protected])

TA: Jeremie

Elevator Speech:
MealUp is a cross-platform mobile app that helps Princeton students schedule meals with their friends. Input your availability for meals over the next week and MealUp will find a time for you to meet up with your friends over a meal. Easily request meals with friends and groups of friends and keep track of who you plan to eat with by exporting to your calendar app. Login to MealUp using Facebook to immediately start scheduling meals with all your friends!

Design Document:
click here

Timeline:
Week 1 (3/17 - 3/24 [spring break]):
Goals: do all the necessary learning, get a better idea of how our app will be created
Tasks:

• Learn React-Native (JS, React), Redux, How NoSQL works, Firebase Authentication, Database, and Cloud Functions, CSS Flexbox
• Set up project repository on GitHub
• Learn how to get list of friends from Facebook API
• Create project website

Week 2 (3/25 - 3/31): Weekly TA meetings start this week
Goals: Rough UI, figuring out how to read and write to our database, figure out basic idea of the Cloud Functions we need
Tasks:

• Facebook Authentication, list of friends done
• Have all the components we need figured out (possibly coded)
• Plan how to use Redux (organize state)

Week 3 (4/1 - 4/7):
Goals: rough UI completely coded, code database interaction code, Cloud functions
Tasks:

• Components coded
• Basic request implemented and received by other user
• Database code done

Week 4 (4/8 - 4/14): Project prototype on 4/13
Goals: make UI look better, bring all the parts together, test on ourselves
Tasks:

• Make accounts and test functionality between our accounts
• UI styling
• Cloud Functions done

Week 5 (4/15 - 4/21):
Goals: Implement potential features
Tasks:

• Push notifications
• Group meal scheduling
• Repeated meals

Week 6 (4/22 - 4/28):
Goals: Alpha test on 4/27
Tasks:

• Thoroughly test application with corner cases and debug

Week 7 (4/29 - 5/5): Last class on 5/3
Goals: Beta testing
Tasks:

• Continue to test and debug
• Test on real users