DiningBuddy is a social dining experiment created for Christopher Newport University.

The goal of the project is to create a social dining experience on campus that allows students to share information about the dining halls from their smartphones.

By using the location services of these devices and a digital GPS coordinate-based map of campus, it is possible to determine how many students using the app are present in a dining hall at any given time. By combining this data with information provided by students about how crowded their dining hall is, the service attempts to make a prediction about the overall status of the location.

DiningBuddy is a project of three parts:

• The Server (written in Python)
• The server setup uses industry-standard TLS/SSL encryption to protect any data you communicate to it.
• Third-party projects used:
• Flask
• MongoDB
• Pygal
• The Android App (written in Java)
• Third-party projects used:
• FlatUI
• Retrofit
• OkHttp
• LeakCanary
• The iPhone App (written in Objective-C)
• Third-party projects used:
• Reachability
• InAppSettingsKit
• WYPopoverController
• JSONModel
• IQKeyboardManager
• RKCardView