quaint crane
hi everyone! for context i'm an IBDP2 student (12th grade) and one of the projects i have to complete to pass my CS class is something called the internal assessment. from google: "The IB Computer Science Internal Assessment (IA) is a practical project where students develop a computational solution to a real-world problem posed by a client. It's assessed out of 34 points and involves planning, designing, developing, and evaluating a product."
i've chosen to make a recipe tracking app for my IA, which has functions like creating recipes, viewing a feed of recipes, commenting on other peoples' recipes and rating them. originally, i planned to code it entirely with Java, using the Palette/GUI designer on intelliJ to help me. i chose Java because of my teacher. she recommended it as it's the language we're learning in school. so far, i've connected my database to the code and finished making the login/register page.
however, i'm not really liking the overall UI, and although i've tried making it look better it unfortunately isn't as open to customization. i want to ideally have the app finished and working by end august but rn i'm just stuck :/
the project isn't graded on how it looks, but i'm generally not comfortable with the GUI designer. as of now i'm not sure what to do. i've made and published an app using kotlin and android studio before, but it wasn't anything too complex. i also have access to a mac so i could potentially learn swift to make it an ios app. another option is using html, css, and js as i've heard that is a good combination of languages to make a working app but i don't know anything about js.
so those are my options. i could also just thug it through somehow and continue with java but i'm not a big fan of that option lol. please give me advice on what is the fastest and most efficient option for me 🙏 thank you so much in advancee
normal hamlet
