What2Cook

What2Cook is an iOS app that allows users to quickly find recipes and start cooking! Users can search for popular recipes or use the “What’s In My Fridge” feature to discover recipes that they can make now using only ingredients they have in their fridge! This app can be used hands-off while cooking with text-to-speech to read out recipe instructions and voice commands to navigate through the directions.

User Stories

• As a user, I want to be able to easily view recipes and all of the information associated with them, such as ingredients used, relative difficulty, time length, dietary restrictions, and instructions.
• As a user, I want to be able to view all of these recipes in 2 forms, one at a time (single image) and all at once (collection view of images).
• As a user, I want to be able to swipe left or right to quickly view receipes during Single view mode.
• As a user, I want to be able to discover new recipes using only the ingredients in my fridge or pantry.
• As a user, I want to be able to bookmark certain recipes to view them offline
• As a user, I want a navbar to see my profile, bookmarks, settings, help, logout etc.
• As a user, I want to be able to hear the instruction of the receipes read out loud ( TTS/ audio).

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

1. Log in + Search popular recipes: https://i.imgur.com/SNA7KCQ.gif

2. What's in my Fridge feature: https://i.imgur.com/nFd6xC7.gif

3. Recipe View + Bookmarks(Works offline): https://i.imgur.com/CQyYOaI.gif

How To Use

Run in Xcode after creating a file named Constants.swift:

class Constants {
  let SPOONACULAR_KEY = "Your Spoonacular API key"
  let HEROKU_KEY = "Your Heroku master key"
}

Spoonacular is free as long as you do not exceed 50 API calls or 500 API results per day. You can keep track of your API calls and results in Settings.

Tested using iPhone 8

Nice To Haves

• As a user, I want a tutorial when I first signup.
• As a user, I want to be able to filter through recipes based on ingredients, holidays, difficulty, dietary restrictions and time length.
• As a user, I want to see motivational quotes to eat healthier, cook at home, or take care of my health
• As a user, I want to be able to upload my own recipes and take a picture of my masterpiece!
• As a user, I want to be able to get feedback on my recipes, such as areas for improvement.
• As a user, I want to be able to add friends and see their recipes.
• As a user, I want to be able to live stream my cooking.

Layout Views:

1. Login/Signup - Similar to ParseChat Lab ( baby blue background and food icons in front) 1.5. First-Time Questionnaire/Tutorial (food preferences, allergies, experience level) - happens once, only for new users
2. Home Feed (all recipes, filterable)
   • Collection view mode (view of all recipes at once)
   • Single view mode (swipe to navigate and favorite/bookmark)
   • Filters (rating, difficulty, within time period)
   • Tab Bar (Single/Collection view, What’s in My Pantry?, Bookmarks)
   • Side Bar for Profile (What’s cooking?, My Pantry, Friends, Edit Profile, Settings)
3. Profile Feed (your recipes, recipes you commented on, etc.)
4. What’s My Fridge Feed User can add ingredients to a checklist, which the app will automatically sort into categories (name, notes, picture, quantity)
   • “Select all” option (for all ingredients or a certain category)
   • Button for searching recipes with the checked ingredients (What to cook?)
   • User can save a set/list of ingredients to look up recipes next time / sorted by category
   • Able to select all/clear
5. Settings Can enter food preferences, allergies, calories, etc. => will filter out feed accordingly Log Out

Pen and Paper Wireframe: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxLxl5vDUF8FT3RJeG4zT3ZjTV9mRGRZckdmNGFYdEVLZi1n/view?usp=sharing

Data Schema :

User - Email: String - password : String - name : String - displayName: String - Friends [ user references/ ids ] (optional) - Bookmarked : [recipes references/ ids]

Ingredents - Catagory : String - Name : String - inclued : Boolean

Recipe - rating : int - time length : int - difficulty : int - name : string - Description : blog/ clob - Directions : String - ingredients :[ ingredients references/ ids ] - image: image - bookmark count : int - reviews [comments/post reference] (optional)

Optional Tables

Comment / Post - User - Description - Picture - link to recipes ( recipe object/ recipe ids ) - likes_count : int