MISSION

Meal MobileLee Williams & Kate Strassman

MISSION

Meal Mobile is a location-based smart phone application that provides a convenient way for locating, discovering, and favoriting food trucks.

SarahThe Businesswoman

GuyThe Foodie

RonThe College Student

TARGET AUDIENCE

RESEARCH

+ Simple functional interface+ Cart profiles+ Twitter feeds+ Recommendations based on location

_ Extremely limited database_ Mostly a promotion tool for the Food Network’s Eat Street _ Measurements are in metric_ Slow browsing

REAEARCH

+ Has a unique interface

_ Small NYC database focuses on West Coast food trucks_ Awkward navigation_ Unstable_ No ability to favorite trucks_ Map defaults to 40+ mile radius view

REAEARCH

+ Simple, easy-to-navigate interface

_ No ability to favorite trucks_ Small NYC database focuses on food trucks in many cities_ “Near Me” function only lets you pick from a list of cuisines and doesn’t just show you a map of trucks within a small radius of your location_ App is slow and crashes often

TAKE AWAY

People want to be able to keep track of their favorite trucks.

People want to know what trucks are in their immediate vicinity.

App needs to be stable, responsive, and have a simple, easy-to-use interface.

OUR PROPOSAL

Swipe between favorites

Detail Page

OUR PROPOSAL

Browse by cuisineQuick search

Selecting takes the userto a map and displays alltrucks serving that cuisine

OUR PROPOSAL

Displays any food truckwithin a five-block radius

Tap to go to the truck’s detail page

OUR PROPOSAL

Quick search to narrow results

OUR PROPOSAL

View schedule by day of the week

Add a truck to your favorites

View reviews from yelp

Tapping displays thislocation on a map.

OUR PROPOSAL

Pick the truck you spotted

Automatically updates trucks data based on your location

ACCOMPLISHED

Successfully created a dynamic SQL database within the IOS Objective C platform.

Meaning... We can interact and retrieve any information from within the app.

This is key because without a functioning database there is no food truck finding, favoriting, location awareness etc.

Also, because we’re developing this as a native app, there will be no performance issues associated with Web-based apps.

FUTURE PLANS

Finish it!

Now that we have a functioning database we can continue adding trucks as well as building our interface as wrapper for it.

We need to give users the ability to modify the database by adding favorites and spotting new locations of trucks.

Plug in to Google Places API for reviews and converting Lat/Lng GPS coordinates to street names.

Android version? Why not...