FoodPal

A Daily Meal and Calorie Tracker

What this application does

This application allows users to track the food they consume on a daily basis to monitor their dietary and nutritional habits. You can also store your frequently consumed meals to refer to and add again in the future. The application also allows you to track the calories and ingredients of each meal, and can display the total daily calories consumed. You may also refer back to past days and view previous entries.

Who should use this application

This application is directed towards health conscious individuals and people who are trying to improve their dietary habits by understanding what they eat on a daily basis. This application can serve as a way to hold yourself accountable for your diet and to gain control on how many calories you consume every day. People who also want to track recipe ingredients can use this application as a way to store that information.

Why this project is of interest to me

Being a health conscious person myself, I appreciate software solutions that aim to facilitate healthier lifestyle choices. Given that I have used similar applications in the past, I would see myself personally using this platform. Also, by being familiar with health applications, I believe that I am in a good position to add my own value and differentiation to this kind of solution.

Some features of this application can include:

• Track daily meals eaten and their ingredients
• Track calories per meal
• View daily calories consumed
• View and display current and previous days
• View and add previously stored meals

User Stories

• As a user, I want to be able to add a meal to my daily diary
• As a user, I want to be able to view the list of all the meals I ate today
• As a user, I want to be able to select a meal and view its ingredients and calories
• As a user, I want to be able to view my total daily calories consumed
• As a user, I want to be able to save my daily meal entries to file
• As a user, I want to be able to load my daily meal entries from file

Phase 4: Task 2

• Option Chosen: Robust class Implementation (first option)
• Class involved: Meal Class
• Method Involved: Meal Constructor (throws InvalidInputException)

Phase 4: Task 3

Reflection on refactoring to improve project design:

• Refactor code to reduce coupling between Log and MealDatabase with the Meal class

• Split my ActionListener class within my Gui class into individual ActionListener classes for each button to prevent overwhelming the class with if/else statements while keeping control of each button separate

• Implement an abstract class (such as a generic meal log class) for Log and MealDatabase to extend such that common functionality can be shared while eliminating repeated code

• Reduce dependencies of Gui class (i.e., MealCellRenderer or NewMealWindow) by refactoring class and making all features self-contained