Favourites Page

Hey! It is 2 weeks before Common Test and time is not on our side; my team and I are rushing to develop Gastronome before taking a break and start revising for Common Test. Hence, this week, I have developed the Favourites Page of Gastronome where users are able to view the recipes they have favourited previously. Also, as my role in the team is mainly back-end development, this is the only page I have built both front-end and back-end by myself completely.

In the second blog post for Gastronome, I have already built the Home Page where it displays all the recipes in Gastronome. Hence, retrieving all the favourited recipes for the users was rather similar apart from checking whether the recipes belongs to the user and pulling data from the Favourites node. After building the Favourite page, I have learnt a lot of things from the other application developer, Kevin. He introduced the term “Fragment” to me and taught me how does Fragment actually worked. He also taught me how to implement the title of the page and the navigation bar in the fragment XML. In the whole development of Gastronome’s Android application so far, I felt that this task was the most fruitful to me as I managed to learn quite a lot of stuffs from Kevin as he already has experienced with navigation tabs and the use of Fragments.

After completing building the Favourites Page where it displays the recipes the users have favourited as well as learning new concepts of Android Development from the other application developer, I will be working on the addition of recipes into user’s weekly log with Kevin. I will be documenting my progress of the weekly log in my next blog! Hope to see you there!