recipe_manager

An app that manages all your recipes.

This app has been built as part of a project for university. v0.1 only serves that purpose. Development will continue in the future to fully implement all planned features and have a production ready application.

Author

• @Tonnanto

Features

• Find all your favourite recipes in one app.
• Create your own detailed recipes that can't be found on any other app.
• TBD: Add recipes to recipe books and share them with your friends and family in the cloud.

Current state of development

Technology

• This app is built using Dart and Flutter. It can be run on iOS, Android and in the web.
• Recipe manager makes use of the following open source dart packages:
  • flutter_form_builder
  • image_picker
  • sqflite
  • path
  • enum_to_string
  • firebase_core
  • cloud_firestore

Data model

• Recipe books, recipes and ingredients can be created, edited and deleted.
• The data model can be found in an attached class diagram (recipe-manager-model-class-diagram.png).
• The app is pre-populated with some demo data including 3 recipe books and 7 recipes and ~75 ingredients.
• The following functionalities have been added for demo purposes:
  • Deleting all data
  • Resetting the demo data to it's initial state

Data persistence

• iOS and Android only use a local SQLite Database on the device to persist data.
• The Web Application is connected to a Google Firestore Database (NoSQL).
• In the future every platform will be connected to the same Firestore Database (to allow sharing) and mobile devices will additionally use local databases for offline use.

Build and run

• Open this project (Preferably in Android Studio)
  • Flutter and Flutter Plugin for Android Studio must be installed
• Run dart pub get
• Select a device (android emulator, an iOS simulator or a browser)
• Run main.dart