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One Week Passion Project, an iOS Recipe Helper

Duration: January 2021

Role: Developer, Designer

Skills + Tools: Swift, Swift UI, Apple Test Flight, Adobe XD

Table of Contents

Relevant Links

https://github.com/kaolugo/motherHen

Overview

Ever have a very mismatched combination of foods in your pantry or fridge, and its not yet quite time to go grocery shopping, but you struggle to figure out what to cook for dinner with the ingredients that you do have on hand ? Mother Hen was designed and developed to help with just that !

I've previously developed for iOS as a passion project once before, but I wanted to revisit iOS development in an effort to understand and learn how to use the newly introduce front end technology, Swift UI and the MVVM framework more in depth.

Follow my work as a Developer and the technologies I learned to use through this project by following the page topdown :) But if you're interested in the elements of design I integrated into this project as a Designer, you can skip here , or view the full case study here !!


Research, Learning, and Feature Planning

Through this project, I really wanted to tackle understanding key software engineering and development techniques and terminology that I was always scared of learning. This app was a perfect way to practice implementing basic software development conventions. Here are some of the terms I learned and researched before diving into the project.