GR4 - Fat Charles

Platform and Software Requirements

The Fat Charles prototype is to be viewed on a mobile browser running Webkit on a touch-screen mobile device. The application may also be used in Google Chrome on a desktop or laptop, although the mobile experience will not be there. Additionally, for a smoother experience when running the application, 3G phones/WiFi connections are preferred. Android 2.3+, iPod Touch 3rd Generation+, or above is preferred.

Accessing the Prototype

Simply visit: zbt.mit.edu/fat_charles

Shallow Parts of the Prototype

Search queries will always return the same results. Regardless of the name that you search or of the ingredients that you input, you will always get the same results.

Ratings are static (mostly). We do not support full tracking of ratings for any drink yet. When you hit a button to change the rating, the rating number is changed client-side, but no changes are pushed to the server. Thus, upon refreshing the page, the rating will go back to its original value.

Comments are not persistent from session to session. You can view the comment that you just added by tapping "show comments", but it will only include your most recent comment, and does not persist across sessions.

Drink submission does not actually submit your drink into the database. This means if you submit a drink and then search for it, you will not receive the drink which you inputted. (EDIT after deadline: For clarification, the dialog box that pops up upon submit will not actually be part of the final product. It is just there right now to signal a successful submission. In the final product, the button would take you to a page that you created, but since our back-end is not complete we cannot do that at this moment.)

Ingredients are currently a set of representative ingredients used in common drinks. In our actual application, we will have more and more specific ingredients.