Design and Implementation of an Android Nigerian Recipe Generating System

Abstract

Food is any edible substance that is expected to give nutritional value to the living body. It is required for vitality, development and counteractive action of disease and repair of body cells. Daily, individuals are confronted with lack of knowledge on what to cook, how to cook or what ingredients are available or unavailable for cooking. This could be as a result of various reasons and can result to other problems like overthinking, food repetition, ignorance of availability of ingredient and food wastage, thus, this system was developed to help eliminate or reduce these problems. The system generates possible Nigerian meals that can be prepared with available ingredients in stock. It was developed for Android devices and implemented using Android Studio, with Java as the programming language, XML for the interface and SQLite for the database. The system was deployed on forty user’s mobile devices for testing and got positive feedbacks. The system proved to be useful and satisfied its potential users.