👨‍🍳 Chef AI – Smart Recipe Generator

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✨ What is Chef AI?

Chef AI is an Android app that turns the ingredients you already own into delicious, step-by-step recipes—powered by the ChatGPT 4o model.
Stop wasting food, find inspiration fast.

Home → Generate	Recipe Card	Search History

Team Members

1. Deepesh Katudia
2. Connor Tway
3. Ayush Sakariya

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📋 Table of Contents

1. Features
2. Tech stack
3. Prerequisites
4. Quick start
5. Running the project

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Features

• AI recipe generation — GPT 4o creates a full recipe from an idea & fridge contents
• Beautiful recipe cards — ingredients, timings, instructions, AI-generated image
• Offline cache — Room database stores every generated recipe, searchable offline
• Dark-mode & dietary preference — persisted in DataStore
• Responsive UI — works both portrait & landscape

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Tech stack

Layer	Library / Tool
UI	Jetpack Compose, Material 3, Coil
State & DI	ViewModel, Kotlin Coroutines
Networking	Retrofit 2 + OkHttp logging
AI backend	OpenAI ChatGPT API
Persistence	Room database • DataStore (preferences)

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Prerequisites

Tool	Version
Android Studio	Hedgehog
Gradle	Wrapper 8.x (bundled)
JDK	17
OpenAI API key	ChatGPT 4o access

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Quick start

# 1 • Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/your-username/ChefAI.git
cd ChefAI

# 2 • Add your OpenAI key (local.properties is NOT committed)
echo "OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" >> local.properties

# 3 • Open the project
#    Android Studio → File ▸ Open... ▸ select project root

# 4 • Sync & run
#    Click ▶ or use:
./gradlew installDebug
adb shell am start -n "com.example.chefai/.MainActivity"