Nutriarc

A non-calorie counting, non-diet, nutrition journal that focuses on mental health and how you feel about your body.

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Inspiration

Most current nutrition apps require payment, and they are focused on dieting and calorie counting. We wanted to create a nutrition application that focuses on actual sustainable nutrition. Dieting has been shown to be ineffective in the long term. Most diet companies rely on this in order to have repeat customers. Also most diet apps end up being a main contributor to eating disorders, such as anorexia. Therefore, we wanted to make sure our app promoted nutrition while also helping users to build a healthy relationship with food. To build this relationship, we used a journaling aspect, as journaling is commonly recommended as a healing mechanism for people in eating disorder recovery.

What it does

The home screen of the application displays a new helpful health tip whenever the application is opened. There is a calendar in which the user can log how they felt that day. The user is then able to journal about their day, what they ate, how they feel about that, and plans for better habits in the future. The application also has a page for the user to explore new recipes.

How we built it

We built it with android studio, using a combination of java and xml code.

Challenges we ran into

As a part of the app, users are able to click on a day in the calendar and choose a sticker that represents how they felt that day. This proved to be much more challenging to code than initially expected, because the built in CalendarView widget is not built to easily support this.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Although it was a challenge, we are proud of how the calendar turned out. The stickers are a fun and easy way for people to keep track of how they felt in any given day about the food they ate. We are also proud of our randomized tips that appear on the home screen. We think this is a fun way to provide users with a new tip upon each use of the app.

What we learned

We learned more Github and version control works. We also learned how java and xml work together to create an app.

What's next for Nutriarc

  1. Better journal - We would like to add more details to the journaling part of the app, where the user can make more specific notes about what they ate and how they felt about it, and tie each note to a particular day rather than just making a note.
  2. More recipes - Right now our app only contains three recipe ideas, just due to the length of the hackathon and trying to focus on other features.
  3. More tips to cycle through - Similar to adding more recipes, we have a limited number of tips to the app to cycle through and we would like to add more to ensure it is a different tip that appears each time the app is opened.
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