Liv2eat: A Cross Platform Application to Digitalize the College Canteen Using Firebase

Abstract

With the exponential advancements in technology each year, a plethora of applications have been developed ranging from the most basic to the most advanced use cases. The amelioration in the smartphone industry has proven to be a major factor in the rapid development of mobile applications. The time and cost required to build apps increases due to the presence of multiple platforms, resulting in different programming for each. Hence, to mitigate these challenges, the solution was found in hybrid applications. To join this race of the digital world, a cross-platform application was developed for college canteen, which administered the users to place orders efficiently through a mobile application. Concurrently, this expunged the canteen problem of crowd management by notifying the customers after order completion, and assisted the staff to become dexterous with the use of this technology, thereby reducing manual labour. This paper discusses the technologies used, comparative studies and results obtained after the development of the prototype of the proposed system.