NetNutrition App
What does the app do?
This app acts as a mobile interface for the Duke NetNutrition website that allows users to select foods they ate during the day, automatically populating all statistics like calories, carbs, etc. into HealthKit.
Basic features
- Privacy settings with data
- Includes a listing of restaurants on campus
- For each restaurant, you can click on it and a list of foods served there that day is displayed
- Each food can be selected and its nutrition information will populate into HealthKit
- There is also a menu the user can access and scroll through showing the meals they have added historically
Architecture
- Nutrition information comes from the Duke NetNutrition website on a real-time basis
- HealthKit permissions are required from the user and data will is whenever they add a meal
- User accounts/logins are not necessary
- There is minimal information to store locally within the app, the only thing to store is a historical listing of the users’ foods; nutrition data is stored in HealthKit