Restaurant Review

The restaurant review app for android was a solo project for a mobile app writing course at Swansea University in 2021. The objective was to develop an android app using Kotlin and Android Studio while picking up key concepts along the way such as the app activity lifecycle.

A basic specification of an android ‘restaurant review’ app was given with a number of required features and then the option to add additional features for extra credit on the course. On that basis, the app I developed is a straightforward ‘review’ app with functionality that allows users to browse restaurants, read reviews and leave their own reviews among other features. Roughly 3 weeks were spent working on it, utilising Firebase as a database to store data for implementing a simple user account system, restaurant search feature, and review system for each restaurant. The app shown here achieved a final result of 97%.

Features

• User accounts + guest login

• Search for restaurants stored in the database

• Read reviews left by other users on each restaurant

• Leave reviews with a title, text, a star rating, and optionally an image or a location tag

• Edit previously written reviews

• Press the like button on other reviews

• Recieve custom restaurant recommendations based on your review preferences