Updates (Part 4)

Since the previous wave of updates, updates have continued to be made for the app. Many of the categories generated by the automatic parser have been combined into more human-friendly categories. Using a web interface that I created, recommendations were input into the database by the nutritional team and show up in the application without actual updates to the application on the phone.

My advisor and I have also discussed scalability and performance issues that may occur with the current design, as well as possible solutions. For example, for reduced data use or (slightly) faster lookup times of previously viewed menus, most of the network calls that the app is making could be cached into local storage on the phone.