WhereIsMaFood (a.k.a. MaFood) is an experimental project I decided to make as a first published app to the app store and also track my learning experience with iOS technologies.
The key factors that I wanted to achieve by creating this app are:
- publish a free of charge app
- have an open source project for that
- experience first hand how to create an app from scratch
In order to achieve point (1) I had to take important decisions, as in using only free and open APIs, like the Apple MapKit APIs, to retrieve critical information for the app to work. Information retrieved through such mean is very minimal and to the point, but, whatever I was able to retrieve using that, I exposed it via the app interface, such as website and directions information.
Everybody is welcome to fork, provide feedback and contribute to the project. As with all open source Github projects, simply open a pull request and, in case it makes sense and it's in line with the purpose of the project, I'll merge it in.