A PROJECT REPORT

ON
ANDROID - ONLINE FOOD ORDERING
APPLICATION(RESTAURANT FINDER)
Submitted in the partial fulfilment
For the award of degree in

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
TO
UTTARAKHAND TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
DEHRADUN

Submitted by

PRIYANKA (150560101017)
Under the guidance of

MS. RENU BAHUGUNA

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

of
Doon Institute Of Engineering & Technology, Rishikesh
2015-2019
 CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the project report titled “RESTAURANT FINDER” submitted in partial
fulfilment for the award of Bachelor Of Technology degree in Computer Science &
Engineering from Uttarakhand Technical University ,is a record of the candidate own work
carried out by them under my own supervision .The matter embodied in this project is original
and has not been submitted for the award of any other degree.

Ms. Renu Bahuguna

Date:
 DECLARATION
I declare that this report entitled “Restaurant Finder” is my own work except as cited in the
references. The report has not been accepted for any degree and is not being submitted
concurrently in candidature for any degree or other award.

Priyanka ( 150560101017)
Date :
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
To get the practical knowledge and to make a report on a project without anybody’s help is
really a task of great difficulty. Fortunately in preparation of this report We got the help of
many known as well as unknowns for providing the valuable information about each and every
stage of this project.
We are thankful to all those persons because the activity if going through industrial orientation
it’ll bridged me to become good IT Professional. Naturally, it requires lot of people support to
complete this project. We take this opportunity to acknowledge their support to us.
First of all I am extremely thankful to B.Tech (Bachelors of Technology) department of
Computer Science & Engineering of Uttarakhand Technical University for giving
permission to do project in outside of campus.
We consider our self privileged having found an opportunity to express our heartily thanks to
our head of the B.Tech department.

With sincerely regards,

PRIYANKA

150560101017

DATE :
 ABSTRACT
The purpose of this project is to develop a computerized and mobilized food ordering system
that can be used to revolutionize the traditional ordering system that currently implemented in
majority of the food and beverage industry. The traditional system that using by most of the
food and beverage industry is the traditional manual ordering system which means all works
and procedures is recorded through manpower manual work and it consist of a huge amount of
paper work that is not effective and efficiency. This cause the business to encounter trouble
which regarding human error due to the huge amount of manpower manual work that operating
in each business routine. Thus, this computerized and mobilized food ordering system is
designed to assist the business routine in term of having better management as well as easier
to handle daily business operation.
 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
a. Project Profile:
Project Title: Restaurant Finder
Organization: CETPA Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
Developed by: Priyanka
Duration: 6 weeks
Internal Guide: Mr. Rahul Kumar

b. Project Tools:
Front-end Tools: Android Studio
Back-end Tools: 000webhost server
Web Service: PHP codeigniter framework
Platform: Android

c. Software Requirements:
Application Front-end Android Studio
Tools:
Database Back-end Tools: 000webhost sever
Office Automation Tools: Microsoft office 2007, MS Visio

d. Hardware Requirements (Recommended):

Application Installation Android enabled GSM/CDMA phone & other
Internet Connection Required
Version 4.4 +
Memory 128MB
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
CERTIFICATE
DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ABSTRACT
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
TABLES OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1-23

1.1 About Android 1-17
1.2 About Project 18-18
1.3 Project Overview 19-19
1.4 Project Background 20-20
1.5 Problem Domain 20-21
1.6 Project Objectives 21-22
1.7 Chapter Summary 23-23

CHAPTER 2:LITERATURE REVIEW 24-27

2.1 Wireless Food Ordering System 24-24
2.2 Online Ordering System 25-25
2.3 Electronic Menu Card for Restaurants 26-26
2.4 Chapter Summary 27-27

CHAPTER 3: SYSTEM REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION 28-33

3.1 Proposed Methodology 28-30
3.2 System Planning 30-31
3.3 System Analysis 32-33

CHAPTER 4:IMPLEMENTATION & RESULT 34-41

4.1 Project Design 34-35
4.2 Graphic User Interface Design 35-36
4.2.1 Computer Side 36-41

CHAPTER 5: SYSTEM TESTING 42-44

5.1 Project Implementation & Testing 42-42
5.2 Implementation Issues & Challenges 43-43
5.3 Development Tools 43-44
5.4 Test Plan 44-44

CHAPTER 6: SYSTEM DESIGN 45-46

6.1 Proposed System Completion 45-45
6.2 System Strength and Limitation 45-46
6.3 Future Enhancement 46-46

CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION 47-47

REFERENCES
 CHAPTER 1-INTRODUCTION
1.1ABOUT ANDROID:
Android, This word means a lot in present High-Tech World. Today Smartphone are known
for its operating system which is Android. Earlier there is no option for operating systems like
Android in mobile, as usual there are Symbian , java featured operating systems but today
things had changed a lot, everyone wants a Smartphone which is functioned on Android only.
In a very short span of time android created a reputed place in the market. What is
this Android actually? Android is a software cluster for mobile devices that includes an
operating system OS, key applications and middleware. The Android SDK provides the tools
and APIs required to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java
programming language. About the design, Kernel of Android is based on Linux kernel and
further furnished by Google.
The Open Handset Alliance (OHA), a group of more than 30 technology and mobile
companies, was formed in 2007 to foster creativity and innovation in the mobile arena. This
group includes members like Sprint, T-Mobile, Intel, Broadcom, Motorola, Samsung, Google,
eBay, amongst others.
The main motive of this move was to facilitate openness in mobile software and thus give
customers a diversified software base which is not only less expensive but also convenient and
easy to use. The Android platform has emerged from such a move. Android is an Operating
System that is designed to be used with a variety of handsets that will be launched in the second
half of 2008.
Currently an SDK is hosted by Google, which is a leading player in the initiative. This SDK
allows creation of various Java based programs by using a special Eclipse plug-in that
interfaces with the kit. Android is not only an OS but also includes a middleware and an array
of applications for the users. Some of the supported features are – a Dalvik Virtual Machine,
built in browser and database support, media, camera, GPS, map and other features.
Android is a mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel. It was initially developed
by Android Inc., a firm later purchased by Google, and lately by the Open Handset Alliance. It
allows developers to write managed code in the Java language, controlling the device via
Google-developed Java libraries. The unveiling of the Android distribution on 5 November
2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 47
hardware, software and telecom companies of a special pre-processor (called the Meta Object
Compiler or MOC) to enrich the language.
1.1.1 FEATURES OF ANDROID:

Dalvik Virtual Machine:

It is extremely low-memory based virtual machine, which was designed especially for Android
to run on embedded systems and work well in low power situations. It is also tuned to the CPU
attributes. The Dalvik VM creates a special file format (.DEX) that is created through build
time post processing. Conversion between Java classes and .DEX format is done by included
“dx” tool.

INTEGRATED Browser:
Google made a right choice on choosing web kit as open source web browser. They added a
two pass layout and frame flattening. Two pass layout loads a page without waiting for
blocking elements, such as external CSS or external JavaScript and after a while renders again
with all resources downloaded to the device. Frame flattening converts founded frames into
single one and loads into the browser. These features increase speed and usability browsing the
internet via mobile phone.

SQLite:
SQLite is used for structured data storage. Extremely small (~500kb) relational database
management system, which is integrated in Android. It is based on function calls and single
file, where all definitions, tables and data are stored. This simple design is more than suitable
for a platform such as Android.

Connectivity:
Android supports a wide variety of connectivity technologies including GSM, CDMA,
Bluetooth, EDGE, EVDO, 3G and Wi-Fi.

Messaging:
SMS, MMS, and XMPP are available forms of messaging including threaded text messaging.

Media Support:
Android will support advanced audio/video/still media formats such as MPEG-4, H.264, MP3,
and AAC, AMR, JPEG, PNG, GIF.

ADDITIONAL Hardware Support:

Android is fully capable of utilizing video/still cameras, touchscreens, GPS, compasses,
accelerometers, and accelerated 3D graphics.

MARKET:
The Android Market is a catalogue of applications that can be downloaded and installed to
Android devices over-the-air, without the use of a PC.

MULTITASKING:
Multitasking of applications is available.
1.1.2 ARCHITECTURE OF ANDROID:
The following diagram shows the major components of the Android operating system. Each
Section is described in more detail below.

Applications:
Android will ship with a set of core applications including an email client, SMS program,
calendar, maps, browser, contacts, and others. All applications are written using the Java
programming language.
Application Framework:
The most important parts of the framework are as follows:
Activity Manager: This controls the life cycle of applications and maintains a common “back
stack” for user navigation.
Content providers: These objects encapsulate data that needs to be shared between
applications, such as contacts.
Resource manager: Resources are anything that goes with your program that is not code.
Location manager: An Android phone always knows where it is.
Notification manager: Events such as arriving messages, appointments, proximity alerts,
alien invasions, and more can be presented in an unobtrusive fashion to the user.
VIEW SYSTEM: Enabling applications to access data from other applications or to share their
own data
TELEPHONY MANAGER : Provides core telephoning functionalities
WINDOW MANAGER: The window manager creates display surfaces for the application. It
is Responsible for organizing the screen and display of different layers of application
LIBRARIES:
The next layer above the kernel contains the Android native libraries. These shared libraries
are all written in C or C++, compiled for the particular hardware architecture used by the phone,
and preinstalled by the phone vendor.
Some of the most important native libraries include the following:
i. SURFACE MANAGER : Manages access to the display subsystem and seamlessly
composites 2D and #d graphic layers from multiple applications.
ii. MEDIA LIBRARIES : The libraries support playback and recording of many popular
audio and video formats as well as static image files, including
MPEG4,H.264,MP3,AAC,AMR,JPG and PNG.
iii. SQLite : A powerful and lightweight relational database engine available to all
applications
iv. OPEN GL|ES : Subset of the OpenGL 3D graphics API designed for embedded
devices. It can use for hardware 3D acceleration.
v. FREE TYPE : Bitmap and vector font rendering. It is used to rasterize the characters
into bitmaps and provides into other font-related operations.
vi. Web Kit : A framework providing the basis for building a web browser based on the
open source Web Kit browser.
vii. SGL: SGL is the underlying 2D graphics engine.
viii. SSL : The Secure Socket Layer is a commonly-used protocol for managing the security
of a message transmission on the internet.
ix. Lib C : A BSD – based implementation of the standard C library. Which is tuned for
embedded Linux-based devices.

Android Runtime:
Android includes a set of core libraries that provides most of the functionality available in the
core libraries of the Java programming language.Every Android application runs in its own
process, with its own instance of the Dalvik virtual machine. Dalvik has been written so that a
device can run multiple VMs efficiently. The Dalvik VM executes files in the Dalvik
Executable (.dex) format which is optimized for minimal memory footprint. The VM is
register-based, and runs classes compiled by a Java language compiler that have been
transformed into the .dex format by the included "dx" tool.The Dalvik VM relies on the Linux
kernel for underlying functionality such as threading and low-level memory management.
Dalvik Virtual Machine:
The Dalvik virtual machine is simple Java interpreter machine, completely optimized for
Android platform and which is developed to run on low-end memory mobile devices. One of
the prominent aspects in Dalvik its capability to run along an application compilation
enhancing the runtime performance of the applications. Dalvik is not exactly, a Java machine,
because Dalvik could not read Java code, but consists its own byte code called “dex” and so
the executable files compacted using Dalvik holds the file type name '.dex'. Google states that
the credit for Androids successful development goes to Dalvik VM, because this type of virtual
machine, delivers a good performance over various stages of an application runtime
environment, conserving more battery-power during long run of an application.
Linux Kernel:
Android relies on Linux version 2.6 for core system services such as security, memory
management, process management, network stack, and driver model. The kernel also acts as
an abstraction layer between the hardware and the rest of the software stack.
Power Management:
Based on the standard Linux Power Management,, Android has its own component. A light-
weight power management diver built top of it. CPU shouldn’t consume power if no
applications or services require power.
BINDER (IPC) DRIVER:
Driver to facilitate inter-process communication between applications and services. The binder
driver provides high performance through shared memory, synchronous calls between
processes.

1.1.3 WHAT ANDROID ARE MADE OF:

There are four building blocks for an Android application :
Activity :
User interface component, which corresponds to one screen at time. It means that for the simple
application like Address Book, the developer should have one activity for displaying contacts,
another activity component for displaying more detailed information of chosen name and etc.

Intent Receiver :
Wakes up a predefined action through the external event . For example for the application like
Email Inbox , the developer should have intent receiver and register his code through XML to
wake up an alarm notification, when the user receives email.

Service :
A task , which is done in the background. It means that the user can start an application from
the activity window and keep the service work, while browsing other applications. For instance,
he can browse Google Maps application while holding a call or listening music while browsing
other applications.

Content Provider :
A component , which allows sharing some of the data with other processes and applications. It
is the best way to communicate the applications between each other .Android will ship with a
set of core applications including an email client, SMS program, calendar, maps, browser,
contacts, and others. All applications are written using the Java programming language.
1.1.4 DEVELOPMENT TOOLS:
Android SDK:
The Android SDK includes a variety of custom tools that help you develop mobile applications
on the Android platform. Three of the most significant tools are:

Android Emulator :

A virtual mobile device that runs on our computer -use to design, debug, and test our
applications in an actual Android run-time environment

Android Development Tools Plugin :

for the Eclipse IDE – adds powerful extensions to the Eclipse integrated environment
Dalvik Debug Monitor Service (DDMS) :
Integrated with Dalvik-this tool let us manage processes on an emulator and assists in
debugging

1.1.5 VERSIONS OF ANDROID:

Cupcake

The Android version 1.5 Cupcake is the first version, which got a name assigned, which is
Cupcake. Cupcakes are muffin-like cakes, which mostly has a creamy hood.

Donut

Version 1.6 Donut got the name Donut.

Éclair

Android-Version 2 Éclair and 2.1 Éclair share the same name, Éclair. Éclairs are Longley
biscuits overdrawn with chocolate.
Froyo

Frozen Yogurt is a ice-like dessert made with milk and yogurt and is also the name of the
Android version 2.2 Froyo.

Gingerbread

The name of Android version 2.3 "Gingerbread" is Gingerbread, which are cake-like biscuits
mostly eaten around Christmas time.

Honeycomb

The android version mostly made for tablets, Android 3.0 Honeycomb, is called Honeycomb.
The boot animation of this android version is also made like a honeycomb.

Ice Cream Sandwich

Android 4.0 is called after a sweet, which is made of delicious ice cream between two
biscuits: an Ice Cream Sandwich.

Jelly Bean

Jelly beans are colorful, mostly made out of sugar, sweets, which have a hard shell and are
filled with jelly. The following android versions share this name:

 4.1
 4.2
 4.3

Kit Kat

Kit Kat is a brand from Nestle, and is a chocolate bar filled with waffles. Android 4.4 is
named after this sweet: 4.4 "Kit Kat".
Lollipop

Lollipops are sweets in different flavors on a stalk and is also the name of the following
android versions:

 5.0
 5.1
 5.1.1

Marshmallow

The android version 6.0, announced at 17th of august in 2015 is called after the sweet
Marshmallow.

Nougat

Android 7, also called Android N, officially got the name Nougat.

Oreo

Android 8, also called Android O, carries the name Oreo, which are two crispy chocolate
cookies with a vanilla cream center.

Pie

Android 9, also called Android P, carries the name Pie, which is the name of different sweet
dishes
1.1.6 LEARNING DURING TRAINNING:
During training, I got lots of experience related to real life of software developer. In that
duration, we learn many things with programming on live project & work. Between June 2018
to Jul 2018, I have done my application and other many task related to training.Android
technology are combination of UI(User Interface) i.e. xml file and Java class, that are described
as below-:
Android - UI Controls:
Android provides solid support for the development of UI-based applications. Android
provides a variety of widgets that the application programmer can use to create a desired
layout and interface. These layout elements can be created via the programming language
directly, or through XML layout files
XML-Based Layouts in Android:
 XML is a very popular and widely-used format. Hence, a lot of developers are quite
comfortable with it.
 It helps to provide separation of the UI from the code logic. This provided flexibility
to change one without affecting much the other.
 Generating XML output is easier than writing direct code, making it easier to have
drag-and-drop UI tools to generate interfaces for android apps,i.e:

 Absolute Layout
 Frame Layout
 Linear Layout
 Relative Layout
 Table Layout
 Percent Relative Layout
 Grid Layout
 Coordinator Layout
 Constraint Layout
 Toolbar Layout

Absolute Layout:
In absolute layout, we can specify the exact coordinates of each control that we want to place.
In absolute layout, we will give the exact X and Y coordinates of each control. The following
is an example of an absolute layout:

Frame Layout:
Frame layout is used when you want to show one item on each screen. Using frame layout, we
can have multiple items, but they will be overlapping and only, displaying themselves one at a
time.
Frame Layout is particularly useful when you want to create animation or movement on screen.

Linear Layout:
Linear layout is used to place one element on each line. So, all the elements will be place in an
orderly top-to-bottom fashion. This is a very widely-used layout for creating forms on Android.
We are now going to create a small app to display a basic form using the linear layout. The
layout.xml file is as follows:
Relative Layout:
Using relative layout, we can specify the position of the elements in relation to other
elements, or in relation to the parent container.

Table Layout:
Using table layout, we create a table with rows and columns and place elements within them.
In each row, you cam specify one or more elements.

Percent Relative Layout:

Percent Relative Layout in Android is a subclass of Relative Layout that supports percentage
based margin and dimensions for Views (Button, Text View or any other view).

Grid Layout:
Android Grid View shows items in two-dimensional scrolling grid (rows & columns) and the
grid items are not necessarily predetermined but they automatically inserted to the layout
using a List Adapter

Constraint layout:

A Constraint Layout is a View Group which allows you to position and size widgets in a
flexible way.

Coordinator Layout:

Coordinator Layout is a super-powered Frame Layout .

Coordinator Layout is intended for two primary use cases:

 As a top-level application decor or chrome layout

 As a container for a specific interaction with one or more child views

Toolbar Layout:
Android Tool Bar can be used as action bar and it can contain navigation button, brand logo,
title, subtitle, custom views, and action menu .The difference between action bar and tool bar
is that Tool Bar element can be controlled and part of application layout while action bar is
controlled by android framework. You can read action bar tutorial for more information on
action bar.
In android UI control there are number of UI controls provided by Android that allow you to
build the graphical user interface for your app.
Sr. UI Control & Description
No.

1 Text View

This control is used to display text to the user.

2 Edit Text
Edit Text is a predefined subclass of Text View that includes rich editing
capabilities.

3 Auto Complete Text View

The Auto Complete Text View is a view that is similar to Edit Text, except that it
shows a list of completion suggestions automatically while the user is typing.

4 Button
A push-button that can be pressed, or clicked, by the user to perform an action.

5 ImageButton
An ImageButton is an Absolute Layout which enables you to specify the exact
location of its children. This shows a button with an image (instead of text) that can
be pressed or clicked by the user.

6 Check Box
An on/off switch that can be toggled by the user. You should use check box when
presenting users with a group of selectable options that are not mutually exclusive.

7 Toggle Button
An on/off button with a light indicator.

8 Radio Button
The Radio Button has two states: either checked or unchecked.

9 Radio Group
A Radio Group is used to group together one or more RadioButtons.
 10 Progress Bar
The Progress Bar view provides visual feedback about some ongoing tasks, such as
when you are performing a task in the background.

11 Spinner
A drop-down list that allows users to select one value from a set.

12 Time Picker
The Time Picker view enables users to select a time of the day, in either 24-hour mode
or AM/PM mode.

13 Date Picker
The Date Picker view enables users to select a date of the day.

Toast:
Android toast can be used to display information for the short period of time. A toast contains
message to be displayed quickly and disappears after sometime.

Intents:
Intents are asynchronous messages which allow application components to request
functionality from other Android components. Intents allow you to interact with components
from the same applications as well as with components contributed by other applications. For
example, an activity can start an external activity for taking a picture.
Web view:
An Android web app is an application that uses the Android Web View component to render
part of the Android app's GUI. The Web View component is a full-fledged browser
implemented as a View subclass so you can embed it inside your Android app's GUI anywhere
you like. It is common to let the Web View take up most of the screen space, but you can also
just let the browser take half the screen or whatever partition that suits your app.
Recycler View:
In Android 5.0 Lollipop, Android introduced Recycler View widget. Recycler View is
flexible and efficient version of List View. It is a container for rendering larger data set of
views that can be recycled and scrolled very efficiently.
List View:
Android List View is a view which groups several items and display them in vertical
scrollable list. The list items are automatically inserted to the list using an Adapter that pulls
content from a source such as an array or database.
Grid View:
Grid View is a View Group that displays items in a two-dimensional, scrollable grid. The
grid items are automatically inserted to the layout using a List Adapter.
View pager:
One of the most popular Widgets in the Android library is the View Pager. It's implemented
in several of the most-used Android apps, like the Google Play app and one of my own apps,
recorder: The View Pager is the widget that allows the user to swipe left or right to see an
entirely new screen.
Activity:
An activity represents a single screen with a user interface just like window or frame of Java.
Android activity is the subclass of Context Theme Wrapper class.
Fragment:
A Fragment is a piece of an activity which enable more modular activity design. It will not be
wrong if we say, a fragment is a kind of sub-activity.
Adapter:
In Android, Adapter is a bridge between UI component and data source that helps us to fill data
in UI component. It holds the data and send the data to an Adapter view then view can takes
the data from the adapter view and shows the data on different views like as List View, Grid
View, Spinner etc. For more customization in Views we uses the base adapter or custom
adapters.
Context:
As the name suggests, it's the context of current state of the application/object. It lets newly-
created objects understand what has been going on. Typically you call it to get information
regarding another part of your program (activity and package/application).

Splash screen:
Android splash screen are normally used to show user some kind of progress before the app
loads completely. Some people uses splash screen just to show case their app / company logo
for a couple of second. Unfortunately in android we don’t have any inbuilt mechanism to show
splash screen compared to IOS. In this tutorial we are going to learn how to implement splash
screen in your android application.
Android Picasso and Glide:
Android Picasso is an image loading/processing library developed and maintained by Square
Inc. It’s immensely popular since it often requires just one line of code and has a similar style
of coding for each of its features (we’ll be implementing them soon!). To use the android
Picasso Library in your Android Studio project, add the following dependency in your file.
Progress Dialogue:
A dialog showing a progress indicator and an optional text message or view. Only a text
message or a view can be used at the same time.
Progress bar:
Progress bars are used to show progress of a task. For example, when you are uploading or
downloading something from the internet, it is better to show the progress of
download/upload to the user.

SQLite Database:
In Android, there are several ways to store persistent data. SQLite is one way of storing app
data. It is very lightweight database that comes with Android OS. In Android, integrating
SQLite is a tedious task as it needs writing lot of boilerplate code to store simple data. Consider
SQLite when your app needs to store simple data objects.
000 web host:
000Webhost provides entirely free decent quality web hosting. If you are just starting your
first website project and want to test out some ideas with a free website, 000WebHost might
not be a bad way to go if you don’t want to pay for shared, VPS, or dedicated hosting right
off the bat.

Firebase:
The Assistant tool window in Android Studio. Firebase is a mobile platform that helps you
quickly develop high-quality apps, grow your user base, and earn more money. ... You can
explore and integrate Firebase services in your app directly from Android Studio using the
Assistant window .
JSON parsing:
JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It is structured, light weight, human readable and
easy to parse. It’s a best alternative to XML when our android app needs to interchange data
from server. XML parsing is very complex as compare to JSON parsing.
JSON is shorter, quicker and easier way to interchange data from server. JSON is great success
and most of the API available support JSON format
Shared preference:
Android provides many ways of storing data of an application. One of this way is called
Shared Preferences. Shared Preferences allow you to save and retrieve data in the form of key,
value pair.
In order to use shared preferences, you have to call a method get Shared Preferences () that
returns a Shared Preference instance pointing to the file that contains the values of preferences.
Welcome Slider:
We use intro slider in any application to showcase the major features of that application. There
is a famous quote “First impression is the last impression”. Same applies in any application.
Intro slider creates first impression about your app. It shows the major features of the
application. Any new customer may convert into permanent customer if he/she get impressed.

Intro slider should be shown only for the first time when any customer visits the app. User
should be directly redirected to the home page if he/she is coming after that.
 Google Maps:
Android allows us to integrate Google maps in our application. You can show any location on
the map, or can show different routes on the map etc. You can also customize the map
according to your choices.

Volley:
Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android apps easier and most
importantly, faster.

Volley offers the following benefits:

 Automatic scheduling of network requests.

 Multiple concurrent network connections.
 Transparent disk and memory response caching with standard HTTP cache coherence.
 Support for request prioritization.
 Cancellation request API. You can cancel a single request, or you can set blocks or scopes of
requests to cancel.
 Ease of customization, for example, for retry and back off.
 Strong ordering that makes it easy to correctly populate your UI with data fetched
asynchronously from the network.
 Debugging and tracing tools.
1.2 ABOUT PROJECT:
This project works is aimed for developing an efficient food ordering system that can be used
in the food & beverage (F&B) industry which can help the restaurants to quickly and easily
manage daily operational task as well as improve the dining experience of customers. It is
believed that still have a lot of restaurants are using the traditional method for food ordering
processes. By using the traditional method, it arise a lot of human error while the restaurant’s
employees deal with large amount of customers, this issue will did a great impact to the
restaurant in terms of profitability. Thus, this project is to propose a suitable food ordering
system for F&B industry to solve the problem that mentioned above. The system will become
an important tools use for restaurant to improve the management aspect by utilizing
computerized system to coordinate each and every food ordering transaction instead of
traditional method. In addition, it can also provide efficiency for the restaurant by reducing
time consuming, minimize human errors and providing good quality customer service. In terms
of the integrity and availability of the system provided, it can be concluded that this system is
a suitable solution for the F&B industry.
1.2.1 PROJECT BACKGROUND:
Nowadays, people are more and more frequent to dine-in at restaurant for their meals.
Especially in Kampar, it has roughly 35 thousands to 40 thousands of citizens staying in this
small town. Therefore, it will have a lot of people especially students of UTAR (University
Tunku Abdul Rahman) looking for restaurant that they prefer as their meals such as breakfast,
lunch and dinner. At this moment, it arise a lot of troublesome to restaurants which are still
using traditional food order method as their food order process. The traditional food order method
is not efficient enough for restaurant to deals with crowded situation in their restaurant. The traditional
food order methods can be classified into 2 categories which are paper based and verbal base. For paper
based food order method, the waiter will record down foods that customers order and pass the food
order paper to the kitchen for further process. This is the method that implement by most of the
restaurants in Kampar. In addition, this method still consider efficient if restaurants are not crowded,
but however it will arise a lot of human errors while restaurants are crowded of customers such as food
serve not in sequence, missing of food order paper, mistake in record down the food name and etc.
Second, verbal base food order method is even worse than paper base food order method.
Because, verbal base food orders method require employees to remember all the customers’
food order by relying on their memory and then employees will reach the food order message
to the chef in kitchen physically. Verbal base food order method contains the weaknesses such
as causing the employees unable to memorize all the food order during the restaurant is
crowded of customers and the problems that mentioned above. Thus, this kind of weaknesses
will did a great impact to the restaurants’ profitability.
As a conclusion, this proposal is written to propose an efficient food order system to enhance
and improve the existing traditional food order management system and provide convenience,
availability and integrity to restaurants. At the end of the project, it will be very useful and did
a huge contribution for restaurants which are located in Kampar to deals with crowded situation
during operation hours.

1.2.2 PROBLEM DOMAIN:

Difficulties in food order ticket tracking:
For those restaurants which are using traditional method for food ordering processes, this is a
problem that can’t be eliminated. Because the entire manual process which involve waiters,
pen and paper. Each and every food order transaction is noted down on a piece of paper and
the waiters pass the food order ticket to the kitchen for further processing. While the food order
tickets have passed to the kitchen, the sequence of the food order ticket might be interchanged
with other ticket. Therefore, it will cause the restaurant not be able to serve their customers in
sequentially according to the customer order sequence especially in peak hour, so customers
would complaint to the restaurant in turn it will affect the customer relationship of the
restaurant.
Potential to increase cost of operation:
The cost of operation of a restaurant will be increase from days to days because of the economic
inflation. When the inflation comes in, the cost for each and every fresh ingredient that used to
support the restaurant daily operation will be affect too. Therefore, the restaurants have to make
changes to the food price accordingly in order to maintain the profit, and then all the food menu
cards have to reprint to reflect the updated price. By doing so, it will raise the cost of operation
to the restaurant because we will not know how frequent the inflation occur in the economy.
Next, if the physical areas of the restaurants are very large. It might need to employ extra
worker in order to serve their value customer and thus it will increase the cost of operation too.

Difficulties in updating menu card information:

The information that printed in the menu card is very important because it will lead consumer
to made different order to the restaurant based on the information that the menu card given. If
the food and beverage details changed but the employer do not update the menu card
information, it may cause some possible issue such as consumer dissatisfaction to the
restaurant, consumer cannot make their preferable decision and conflict during consumer make
their payment.

Difficulties in providing appropriate and updated food information:

The fresh ingredient that used to support the restaurant daily operation may vary depending on
the market supply. Therefore, in order to provide this unexpected information during the food
order process, those staff has to remember all the food availability and told the customer at the
beginning of ordering process. For example, if the supplier does not supply “Salmon Fish”
recently. Staff has to remember and inform consumers that all food that contains “Salmon Fish”
is not available. But most of the time, the staff may forget this unexpected information due to
the heavy workload. Hence, it may reduce the rate of satisfaction to the consumers after they
had make decision but at the end the restaurant does not serve them accordingly.

1.2.3 PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

Provide convenience for both employees and consumers:
The system will provide an experience of convenience to the restaurant employees while they
are on duty as well as the consumer who dine-in at the restaurant. This system allow the staff
to serve customers with the minimal delay compare to the paper based order system, because
what the staff need to do is just record down the food that the customer wish to order then the
staff place an order via the computer, the food order will be send to the kitchen computer
simultaneously. After the order have been successfully placed one copy of the food order with
it details will be printed out for customer review. It significantly shorten the time needed to
take an order, assume that kitchen area is on ground floor but currently the staff is taking order
at second floor. If the restaurant is using paper based system, the staff has to deliver the food
order to ground floor and walk all the way back to second floor, it take a lot of time and time
consuming. Therefore, by using this system it can eliminate this minor section of the order
taking process. Besides, it can let consumers to enjoy their meals within a short period of time
and thus it can increase the satisfaction and turnover rate of the consumers.

Assist restaurant to plan ahead:

Whenever the staff places an order for consumers, the food order details information will be
store to the database for further analyzing to perform forecasting. The employees can check
previous food order details to solve any misleading and misunderstand incident while it occur.
For example, staff can manage to inform the consumer estimated times that require to prepare
the food during business hour especially peak hour and hence it can help reduce conflict occur.
Therefore, it is very important to keep all the necessary business data for further review.

Prevention of food serves not in sequence:

This objective will be achieved because whenever employees place an order into the system,
the system will schedule the food order details in a queue then the chef will prepare the food
according to the food order queue. In paper based system, the employee will deliver the food
order ticket into the kitchen and the chef cook whatever foods that are recorded on the paper,
due to the order details are recorded on each and different pieces of paper it is very troublesome
and possible to leads the chef to cook food without following the order sequence. Hence, when
the employee serves foods to consumers without sequence it will cause consumers to be
unhappy and dissatisfaction and it will affect the images and reputation of the restaurant.
Therefore, the system can help prevent this kind of incident to be happening.
1.2.4 PROJECT SCOPE:
The project aimed is to developing an order system that can be used in the small medium
enterprise food & beverages (F&B) industries which can help the restaurants to simplified their
entire daily operational task as well as improve the dining experience of customers. The system
will be in 2 platforms which are mobile and computer based. For the mobile based platform
will developed to let user to view the menu card information of the restaurant and able to let
user place an order via the system. In computer based platform, the system will be able to let
staff to update and make changes to their food and beverage menu information. Next, it also
allows staffs to generate report that they wish to generate such as monthly sales report. The
most important function is to allow staffs to make billing statement for consumer to make their
payment after dine-in.
At the end of the project, it will improve the restaurants productivity, efficiency, effectiveness
and as well as accurateness. Because of this system, it will minimize all the manual work by
replacing the traditional order system into a computer system. It will eliminate the manual work
such as workers physically deliver food order ticket into the kitchen, manually replace the price
tag of the food and manually calculate billing price. These are some main functional module
that will exist in the system.

Food & Beverage Ordering Module:

This module will be developed in mobile platform that let staff pass over the mobile devices
such as tablet or smart phone to the user for viewing the restaurant food menu information.
User can also place an order thru the mobile devices after they make their decision and also
some extra remarks that customer wish to request.

Order Queue Module:

This module can help queue the food order that had been placed and display to the kitchen staff
accordingly.

1.2.5 IMPACT,SIGNIFICANCE & CONTRIBUTION:

After the system was successfully developed, it will bring lots of convenience to the restaurant
employees when they perform their duty within the restaurant as well as improve the consumer
dining experience. It will rapidly increase the productivity of the restaurant compare to the
paper based system as it shorten and simplify the entire process food order, make payment,
food deliver and minimize human error.
On the other hand, the restaurant can provide better customer services to their valued customers
by fully utilizing this system. With a good customer services, is a good starting point to fulfill
customers’ satisfaction as well as customers’ wants and needs. Meanwhile, after customers
experience and satisfied with the customer services that provided from the respective
restaurant, they would share their experience to the popular social website nowadays. Apart
from this activity, it was indirectly advertising the restaurant to the public.

1.2.6 CHAPTER SUMMARY:

This chapter will be discussing about the difficulties issues come together with the traditional
approach for restaurant food ordering system. In addition, it also mentions that those people
who will be facing the problem. Lastly, the project objective and project scope have been listed
and discussed. The overall structure of the proposed system has been justified and project
contribution is stated. Next, will be further discussing about the concept of existing restaurant
management system.
 CHAPTER 2 - LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 WIRELESS FOOD ORDERING SYSTEM:
In the pass decades, the rapid growing of network and wireless technology did a great impact
for how people communicate with each and other remotely. At the same time, this technology
also leads different kind industries to change their entire management aspect. F&B industry is
one of the industries in the market that apply these technologies into their business processes
that assist them to be much more convenience and efficient.
From the message above, Wireless Food Ordering System is a system that integrated both
concept of intranet and wireless technology (Khairunnisa, K. and Ayob, J., 2009). This system
provide user to access the data, information and services from a remote server, which enable
user to access the central databases distributed across the restaurant network. Most of the
handheld devices have implemented and support wireless technology and thus mobile devices
is an ideal hardware device that use to support this system in order to allow user remote access
to the database for data retrieval.

2.1.1 Strength:
The system eliminates the need for a waiter to take order with pen and paper. Moreover, the
waiter only needs to carry the mobile devices for the entire operational hour to perform food
order process instead of using pen and paper. While using pen and paper to take order, it bring
a lot of troublesome such as the waiter busying in replenish the order paper that they carrying.
Other than that, this system also can help in terms of environmentally friendly by reducing the
usage of paper.

2.1.2 Weaknesses and Limitations:

The limitation would be all the client devices are connected via the wireless access point in
order to let client perform data retrieval from the central database. Unfortunately, there might
be a problem in wireless signal coverage is not strong enough to cover the whole restaurant
area and thus cause the waiter’s mobile device disconnect from the server.

2.2 ONLINE ORDERING SYSTEM:

In our generation era, computer has become a key component to our daily life because of the
advancement technology of World Wide Web that becomes an internet that allow each and
every user connected with theirs’ computer for information sharing throughout the whole
world. The World Wide Web did a great contribution to a lot of enterprise which use this
mechanism for information sharing within the enterprise and also outside the enterprise (
Pachanga , R, 2014). From the benefit of World Wide Web, a lot of fast food industry applies
a system known as Online Ordering System to assist their business processes. Online Ordering
System is a technique that allow customer to order their favourite food online via the internet
by using a web browser that installed in their respective computer or smart phone.
Implementing this system can help fast food industry to solve the problem that they face while
using the traditional food ordering processes.

2.2.1 Strength:
The system is very suitable for fast food industry due to it provides ability for customer to place
order anywhere and everywhere and also minimized the time require during the order
processes. Customers do not need to physically go to the restaurant for food ordering instead
of just using their mobile device to place an order via the internet and when the customer reach
the restaurant they can directly have their meal without waiting for the queue. Meanwhile, it
help the fast food restaurant to have a better customer services because the most important
factor that fast food industry concern about is quickness therefore the restaurant should serve
their customer without any delay.
2.2.2 Weaknesses and Limitations:
The main weaknesses of the system will be internet connection depended. The system will not
be operating without the internet connection. Because customer have to place order via the
internet as a medium and the data send to the restaurant database for further process, the
customer will not be able to access the web service if no internet connection available.
Furthermore, if the Internet Service Provider (ISP) is under maintenance it will did a great
impact to the restaurant that relies on the online order system for their business.

2.3 ELECTRONIC MENU CARD FOR RESTAURANTS:

This order system overcome the drawback of traditional paper based order system, it change
everything from paper based into computerized. First of all, the system will be programed with
the food availability from the respective restaurant and display on touchscreen devices that
have been setup in each of the tables within the restaurant. In addition, the touchscreen device
will have a very attractive Graphic User Interface (GUI) that displays the food menu for
customer to make their choices and enable customer to place an order by touching the particular
food image that display on the device screen.

2.3.1 Strength:
This system will help in reducing the number of employee that need in the restaurants hence it
will directly help in considerably reducing the long-term cost of restaurant management.
Second, the system also helps reducing the manual customer services activities and thus
eliminating the human error and human mistakes.

2.3.2 Weaknesses and Limitations:

Although this system provide a lot of ideal solution that can help a restaurant to solve the
problem that they encountered in their working hour, but it need the restaurant owner to invest
a huge amount of money in these systems. For many restaurant owners, they might not take
risk to investing a huge amount of money into this system.
2.4 CHAPTER SUMMARY:
As a conclusion, this chapter had pointed out the strength, weakness and limitation for each
existing system that have been reviewed. Next, the strength of the proposed solution will be
combining the strength of each reviewed existing system. Proposed solution is provided to
solve the limitation and weaknesses of the existing system, thus it can be apply in small-
medium restaurant enterprise.
 CHAPTER 3 – SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT
SPECIFICATION
3.1 PROPOSED METHODOLOGY:
The software methodology that choosen to develop this System is Throwaway Prototyping.
Throwaway Prototyping Model is especially useful when the project needs are vaguely and
poorly laid out. It functions by providing proof that something can indeed be done in terms of
systems and strategies. Throwaway Prototyping Model is used for certain projects and will
eventually be discarded after the project has been completed. It is also known as Close-Ended
Prototyping. Throwaway Prototyping Model is implemented through the creation of prototypes
and thereafter gathering feedback from end users to check if they find it good or not. This is
valuable to get a better understanding of the actual needs of customers before a product or
service is developed and delivered. The reason to choose Throwaway Prototyping to develop
this system is due to it can develop a new system in a short time compare with other software
methodology. Other than that, user might not clearly understand what they really require in the
system. Therefore, Throwaway Prototyping is where the objective to develop the system
rapidly and to understand the user’s requirements and hence develop a better requirements
definition for the system. The prototype concentrates on experimenting with the user
requirements that are poorly understood.

3.1.1 Planning & Analysis:

First and foremost, in planning phase will conduct Joint Application Session (JAD) with users
in order to gather and understand the business needs and system requirements that users are not
clear. During the JAD session, will make use of CASE tools such as Microsoft Visual
Studio.NET, Microsoft Visual Paradigm and so on to generate the user interface that shows
users to verify the user requirements. Furthermore, the activity of observation on the users’
daily work in order to understand and has clarity viewpoint of the business process that operate
every day.
At the end, a work plan which includes the project’s Gantt chart, Network Diagram, resource
sheet, resource usage and cash flow management will be generated. Then, will follow Gantt
chart and Network Diagram as a guideline to perform the tasks that scheduled to develop the
system.

3.1.2 Analysis, Design & Implementation of prototype:

After gather the user requirements from JAD session and observation. Will starts make
analysis, design and implement each and every module base on the user requirements that
gathered.

3.1.3 Design Prototype:

In this phase, the work is to assemble every modules that had been implement in the previous
step to complete a finalize system prototype. Prototypes will be introduced to end users who
will utilize them for testing and evaluation purposes. At this time, they will be providing
feedback, clarify needs and relay requirements. As per requirements of end users derived
through feedback and testing, the prototypes will be continuously altered until such time it has
reached near-perfection. (Repeat step 2 to step 3)

3.1.4 Design:
Once everything has been set and issues have been properly addressed, the prototype will then
be “thrown away” which means discard and the system will be design, taking into consideration
the feedback derived during the verification process.

3.1.5 Implementation:
This is the last phase, which will develop each and every finalize modules within time frame
from design phases and assemble it to be a final version system and deliver to end user.

3.2 SYSTEM PLANING:

First of all, in planning phase the system for development will be identified and selected in
order to solve the problem that discuss in chapter 1. Several studies are needed to have more
clearly understanding about the system requirement. In addition, the SWOT analysis
techniques will be used interpret the strength, weakness, opportunities and limitations of the
basic requirement for the propose solution. Next, a project timeline will be created to have a
clearly understanding of what should do according to the project life cycle. The project timeline
typically is a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates alongside itself and usually
events labelled on points where they would have happened.
In this semester, the Documentation for Final Year Project will be complete in seven week.
The Documentation include of the design of the system, this will serve as a reference that allow
me to develop the prototype of the proposed project more efficiency. Start from week 8, the
prototype of the proposed project will start develop.
After that, the full project development will start in the new coming semester and continue until
the testing phase. The system will being test and the system will be debug to solve any error
that found during testing. The feedback get from the system tester will collect and use as the
reference in the system.

3.3 SYSTEM ANALYSIS:

In system analysis phase, interview will carry out with potential user of the propose solution to
gather and collect useful information for the propose system. Next, system requirement such
as user requirement, software and hardware requirement will be generated and based on the
system requirement, project scope and objective is defined.
3.3.1 Functional Requirements:
Order Management
 The system shall let the user to place an order for their consumers.
 The system shall prompt and ask user to verify the order that have been placed.
 The system shall allow user to add in extra remark regarding the order.
 The system shall allow user to void the order that mistakenly placed or exceptional case
occur.

Reporting Management
 The system shall generate a report that based on the time period that customize by user.
 The system shall retrieve related information from the database and generate the report
to user.

Menu Management:
 The system shall only allow management level user to edit the menu card information
by having an authorization login checking.
 The system shall allow user to update their restaurant menu card information.
 The system shall save the updated menu card information to the database.

Billing Management:
 The system shall retrieve data that needed and arrange in a meaningful structure then
print for user as a reference.
 The system shall let user to choose the payment channel that they wish to use.

Goods and Services Tax Management:

 The system shall calculate the total amount of money that need to submit to government
at the end of the month.

Order Queue Module:

 The system will update the queue display whenever a new order is placed.
 The system will merge the amount identical food that needs to be prepared and display
on the screen.

3.3.2 Non Functional Requirements:

Operational Requirements:
 The system should operate in Window platform environment.
 The system should prompt user to make a backup at the end of the operational day.

Performance Requirements
 The system should let user to place an order in a short period of time.
 The system should complete perform the billing process in a short period of time.

Security Requirements:
 The system should validate the username and password in order to login and make
changes to the system.
 The system should request the current password of the user in order to let them
change to a new password.
 Usability Requirement:
 The system should have an easy understand graphic user interface that deal with the
user.
 The system should let user easy to understand the functionality of each modules.

3.3.3 Hardware & Software Requirements:

Hardware:
 Intel ® Core i3 CPU 3.0 GHz or above
 8GM RAM
 500GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) + 24G Solid State Drive (SSD)
 USB port 3.0
 Monitor
 Wireless Access Point
In this project, a computer with sufficient processing power is needed. The computer is require
for the developer to have project development such as coding for the mobile application,
database creation and modification. For the complete system to work, several hardware
requirements must be met. First, it require an android based smartphone in needed to deploy
the software application and this smartphone is require to connect to the wireless access point
to perform request and respond processes that access to the database. Next, database is a must
for the entire system to store and retrieve the necessary data. Furthermore, a laptop or desktop
is required to host the database and manipulate the entire system.
Description Minimum Requirements

Processor 1.6GHz or faster processor

RAM 512MB or more

Hard Disk 5GB of disk space available or more

Video Card DirectX 9

Hardware requirement for staff computer

Description Minimum Requirements

Processor 1.1 GHz or higher

RAM 512 MB or more

S Hardware requirement for staff smartphone

SOFTWARE:
 Front End : Android Studio Developsment Kit
 Back End : MySQL Server, Wamp Server
 Operating System : Window XP/Window 7/Window 8 and Android 5.0 or above
 Programming Language : JAVA, SQL

Description Minimum Requirement

Mobile Operating System Android 5.0 or above

Windows Operating System Windows 7 or above

Development Kit Latest version of Java Development Kit and

Android Studio Development Kit

Interface Design Netbeans IDE 7 or higher and Android

Studio Development Kit

Software requirement for development

The software install on the operation android smartphone will be developing using Java
programming language with Android Studio Development Kit installed. Next, NetBeans IDE 7 or
higher will be cope with Java programming language to develop the software for the computer
based side and the database configuration will be using MySQL Workbench database software.
 CHAPTER 4 – IMPLEMENTATION & RESULTS

4.1 PROJECT DESIGN:

At the end of the system requirements collection, several relevant diagrams have been
generated in order for the preparation of system model design. The design phase activities
include the design of project architecture and graphical user interfaces, develop relational
databases, business logic and file specifications.

4.1.1 Graphics User Interface Design:

Computer Side:
APP LOGO:
The first things you need to understand when setting out to create an icon is what exactly an app
icon is and what job it performs. An app icon is a visual anchor for your product. Think of it as a
tiny piece of branding that not only needs to look attractive and stand out, but ideally also
communicates the essence of your application.

WELCOME SCREEN:
Android Introduction Slider is basically used to introduce the major features of the application
to the user. It also attracts and helps the user to know about the app. It is also called android
welcome screen and is used to guide the user on how to use the app just after installation. It is
used in almost all popular apps and games these days.
 FRONT OF APP:
It is fast and tasty food mobile apps have greatly affected and facilitated our daily life with
amazing UI designs and user experiences. And a few simple taps on a phone screen are already
enough for us to search, order and purchase preferable delicious foods as we wish.

HOME PAGE:
A home page is generally the main page a visitor navigating to a app from a android device will
see, and it may also serve as a landing page to attract visitors. The home page is used to
facilitate navigation to other pages on the site by providing links to prioritized and recent
articles and pages, and possibly a search box. For example, it is an Online food ordering app
that display its home screen which consist the four categories of food – snacks, breakfast ,
lunch , Dinner and customer can see it and order it as their wish.
SNACKS:

BREAKFAST:
LUNCH:

DINNER:
ORDER PAGE:
ABOUT PAGE:
An About page is a special web page on a site where your readers/visitors learn more about
you and what you do. ... Often, this web page tells the story of the site owner's journey from
struggling to finally achieving success. It is a page which tells all the information regarding to
the app to the use. By that user attract to the app and knows what is the purpose of the app….

GALLERY PAGE:
Use Gallery Pages to showcase images and videos in eye-catching layouts and styles. Gallery
Pages have specific designs intended to match and work with your template. In
any template's Gallery Page, you can display your own images, licensed Getty Images, and
videos. It is a page which consist all the categories of food in the app.
FEEDBACK PAGE:
A feedback page is a way in which customer feedback is obtained. Feedback forms help in
improving products or services, and even the fundamental understanding of the business users.
It is considered one of the most efficient and economical methods of understanding customers
and measuring customer satisfaction
CONTACT US:
A contact page is a standard app page on a application used to allow the visitor to contact the
app owner or people who are responsible for the maintenance of the site. ... a contact form
with entries where the visitor can fill in their name, subject and message and send or reset it.

VIA EMAIL:
VIA CALL:
 CHAPTER 5 - SYSTEM TESTING

5.1 PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION & TESTING:

At the end of the system design, it is the beginning for the actual coding to develop the proposed
system. During development phase, the table structure of the database will be first built in order
to provide a suitable data types that suit the system back end development, system connection
and data transfer. Next, the computer side client program will be developed and follow by will
be the web services that allow mobile phone client program to communicate with the server
and lastly mobile phone side client program will be developed. In testing phase, several test
cases will be carry out to test the system in order to determine the system reliability and system
accuracy. According to the test cases, a system testing report will be generated for further
review to figure out the system weaknesses and made improvement accordingly. In the
deployment phase, several training will be provided for the particular restaurant staff such as
how to operate the system, the procedure of handling different event and several instruction
that need to be follow when operating the system.

5.1.1 Implementation Issues & Challenges:

During the system implementation phase, several challenges need to be confront because it
involve end users to test the production system with various situation. The possible challenges
may face are as following:

User without background:

The users are required to have basic knowledge of how to operate a computer system and
android mobile phone in order to use the system. This will be difficulty to give training to the
user as the basic knowledge information can be obtained from internet easily.

The screen size of different device:

This would be one of the issue that will encounter while implementing the system. Because
user are able to download the mobile application from the official website and use it as a client
device to place order. Therefore, if the user device screens size are too small or too big. The
content and interface of the application may not consistence.
Server performance:
During real time system implementation, three would be a huge number of client that access
to the server at the same time. Therefore, it may slow down the connection and performances
of the system and even causes the server down if the issue goes beyond the level of
acceptance.

5.1.2 Development Tools:

Database Environment:
The proposed system will need a database system to support in order to store the huge amount
of data. MySQL database system will be chosen to support the proposed system because it is
well-known open source relational database management system. Other than that, MySQL
database system provides software developer with a client program with easy understanding
graphical user interface that can communicate to the MySQL database server named as MySQL
Workbench 6.3 CE. By doing so, software developer can interact with the database system with
the user friendliness client program and without using the command prompt, at the end it may
speed up the development progress.
Web Technology:
The proposed system is a cross platform system, which include Windows desktop client and
Android mobile phone client. Therefore, it require to implement web services in order to
support the Android mobile phone client device to fetch data from the database server and store
data back to the database server. In this project, WampServer is used to support the issue that
mention earlier. WampServer is a Windows web development environment that built-in comes
together with the Apache, PHP and MySQL database. Furthermore, PHP will be the
programming language that used to create the web services that store in the server and it is able
to call by the Android mobile phone client to perform particular task.

System Platform:
The project is a cross platform based system which includes Windows desktop client device
and Android mobile phone client device in order to operate the proposed system software.
Therefore, IOS mobile phone client device will not compatible with the proposed system.

Project Management Tool:

For the rule of thumb to develop a system, it requires to have an intact system planning which
serve as a guide line during the development phases. Microsoft Project is a project management
software program and it has been used in the project to design the system planning, project
timeline, managing of resources, tracking development progress and etc.

Visual Paradigm Community Edition:

In this project, Visual Paradigm software has been used to create document for several system
planning diagram such as Use-Case diagram, Activity diagram, Class diagram and etc. By
doing so, software developer are able to visualize the system communicate information much
more concisely and clearly.

NetBean IDE and Android Studio IDE:

Both Android Studio IDE and NetBean IDE is integrated development environment that are
supported by Java programming. Furthermore, NetBean IDE is used to develop the computer
client side program and Android Studio IDE is used to design and develop the mobile phone
client program.

Test Plan:
After the system has been developed, it will move to system testing phase. In system testing
phase, the developed system is required to install on appropriate devices for testing purpose.
After the system installation has been completed, the system testing task will be performed by
different roles of user such as manager role and staff role. The purpose of system testing is to
identify and determine the degree of system stability. At the same time, it is given an
opportunity for developer to figure out error or bug that has not been raise and encounter during
the system development phase. Those error or bug that has been found during the system testing
activities will be solved before the system release. Each and every testing before system testing
phases is actually tested by the system developer itself. Therefore, it might cause some biases
toward the testing due to the system developer have knowledge about the system software
logics and lead the result to be inappropriate. There are four types of testing that will be used
to test the developed system which includes unit testing, integration testing, system testing and
acceptance testing.
5.1.3 Unit Testing:
First of all, unit testing will be the first testing method that used to test the developed system.
It consists of testing activities that test the system module by module which has not been
integrated as a whole. By doing unit testing, developer are able to identify error and bug easily
since it is finding the error and bug through a unit part of the system rather than finding error
through the complete system. In addition, developer will test the unit part of the system with
the validation and the correctness of data value. Valid and invalid input will be entering to test
and ensure the system processes perform with an expected result.

5.1.4 Functional Testing:

After conducted the unit testing, functional testing will begin to test the developed system.
Functional testing is performed to verify that the system application processes that perform and
functioning appropriately according to the design specifications. In functional testing, the core
system application functions will be tested with several test cases in order to ensure that the
entire system functioning as a whole and perform task that with the expected results.

5.1.5 System Testing:

System testing of the software and hardware is a testing conducted on a system which is
complete, integrated system that works as a whole. System testing is a critical testing procedure
that must be conducted by software developer before the system released. During system
testing it can evaluate the system’s compliance with its specified requirements according to the
system design. Furthermore, several testing activities in system testing test not only the design
of the system, but also the behavior and the believed expectations result from the customer. In
addition, various complex test cases that used to test the system are according to the business
process requirements which are collected from the user. Meanwhile, errors or bugs that
detected during the testing is required software developer look into it from the initial step of
the business process to the end of the process to ensure it have expected result in order to solve
the errors or bugs to determine the degree of system stability.

5.1.6 Acceptance Testing:

Last but not lease, acceptance testing also known as user acceptance testing would be the final
testing procedure that perform to test the developed software system. In acceptance testing, the
testing activities are different compare to the testing activities that mentioned previously
because the tester that tests the system will be the final user which do not have knowledge
about the system logic. If the final user encountered an error while using the system, system
developer are required to maintain the system as soon as possible and release a new patch for
the existing system to recover the error. Meanwhile, final user will use the system that
visualized as to support their real business routine operation, therefore software support team
are required to stand by to provide technical support while final user need any help or support
that regarding the system. If there is no errors detected by the final user while using the system
for a long period, the development job of developer is consider as complete and the system will
be a final system product.
 CHAPTER 6 - SYSTEM DESIGN

6.1 PROPOSED SYSTEM COMPLETION:

The proposed system is designed and developed to solve all the problem statements which are
stated in chapter one of this report. First of all, the developed system provides a feature that is
able to solve the problem of difficulties in food order ticket tracking and achieve the project
objective of prevention of food serves not in sequence. By using the system, it allow staff to
placed order ticket through using the system and the system will automatically queue the food
order information according to the first come first serve basis and kitchen staff is able to follow
the food queue to serve customer accordingly. It also eliminates all the manual processes that
involve in the traditional method of delivering food order ticket. In addition, the developed
system allows manager to update all the food information as it is needed. This features helps
restaurant to eliminate duplicated physical menu card which contain misleading information
and also allow staff and customer to view the latest updated food menu information through
using the system. By doing so, it helps restaurant to solve the problem which regarding
difficulties in updating menu card information, difficulties in providing appropriate updated
food information and the potential of increase cost of operation as the system will automatically
refresh all the updated information that is edited by manager. Furthermore, the project objective
which regarding provides convenience for both employees and consumers has been achieved
because the system allow consumer to view all the updated information through the mobile
phone client devices and it reduce the number of manual work which restaurant staff need to
be performed. Last but not lease, the project objective of assisting restaurant to plan ahead has
been achieved due to the system allow manager to generate several types of report in order to
assist the restaurant to plan ahead. By analyzing the generated report, manager is able to carry
out a planning for the next business routine of the restaurant in order to improve the restaurant
operation efficiency. In a nutshell, the system has fulfilled all significant outcomes that
according to all the problem statements and project objectives that are stated.

6.1.1 System Strength and Limitation:

System Strength:
The system provide customer with good dine in experience as it allow customer to view food
information and place order through using the mobile phone device. The mobile application
also provides ease of use because it has easy understandable graphic user interface and minimal
instruction to follow while place order through the application. Next, it helps restaurant staff
to serve their value customer in minimal delay. Furthermore, the system can be implemented
with low cost and is affordable for most of the small medium enterprise restaurant, because the
hardware requirements are not required to be high end powerful in order to support the system.
Lastly, server and client are communicating within the restaurant which is intranet therefore it
does not need to have internet access.
System Limitation:
The system is not compatible with IOS mobile devices as the mobile application is developed
in Android environment. Therefore, for IOS mobile phone user may not able to install the
application in their mobile phone and experience the system. Meanwhile, the restaurant has
prepared some Android mobile devices which are used to resolve the issue that mention above.
Next, due to the mobile phone client devices are required to connect to the wireless intranet in
order to communicate with the server. It is very important to identify a suitable location that
used to install and set up the wireless access point in order to ensure the wireless signal
coverage is able to reach the entire restaurant area.

6.2 FUTURE ENHANCEMENT:

The system can implement a feature which is real time notification from the mobile phone
application to the service desk. This feature enable customer to request customer service
through using the mobile application rather than verbally call restaurant staff to approach them.
In addition, the mobile application also can implement a feature that allow customer to update
the food serve status. For example, customers fine dining at the restaurant they can request the
food to be serve through using the mobile application and if the customer finish the main course
and feeling full, the customer may request do not serve the following food through using the
mobile application. Last but not lease, the mobile application may implement some mini game
that is able to entertain customers while they are waiting for the food to be served.
 CHAPTER 7 - CONCLUSION
After a decade, the advancement and innovation of technology help people to manage their
task easily and efficiently. In many other industry area have been used management system to
assist their business grow long time ago, therefore it is also a trend that cause F&B industry to
make use of a management system for their business. At the end of this project, the system can
reduce and replace the human manpower task, reduce the time consume for each transaction
and generate report for further management purpose by fully utilizing the system.
Obviously, the propose system can help improve the productivity of the restaurant and thus
directly did an impact to the profitability of the restaurant. Furthermore, it can also help
restaurant to reduce the cost of operation in term of manpower, because the system have already
facilitate majority of the business process by using the system. Therefore, it is believed that the
system can lead the restaurant’s business grow from time to time.
On the other hand, the technology nowadays allows the portability requirement easy to achieve.
Therefore, portability has become one of the factor that have to take into consideration in the
system development process. Because portability bring a lot of benefit to user while they using
the system such as it provide convenience, accessibility, easy to communicate and etc. Hence,
portability has done an impact to the social that everybody is much more preferable to complete
their task with portable device.
In order to fulfill these all requirement, our proposed method is combined the food ordering
system which is in mobile platform into the restaurant management system which is in
computer platform. The integration of both features which develop a system that can let user
to have an experience of portability which is user can process their food ordering through using
their smart phone or tablet. Besides, restaurant manage their daily operation management
through using the computer platform it is because computer have some other features such as
it has a wider screen, other compatible system that can help to manage the restaurant and some
other driver that needed to communicate with those necessary hardwares.
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