Yummy

Where are we going? is a question that can take longer than the meal itself. One person fancies pizza, another a burger, a third does not want to walk far, and the maps hand you a hundred venues sorted so that you end up going through them one by one anyway. The problem is not a lack of information — there is too much of it, and nobody wants to own the decision. I wanted to flip that around: instead of yet another search with a list of results, a tool that picks one option out of the sensible ones and takes the weight of choosing off the group. The draw had to stay honest, though — the result has to land inside the rules agreed beforehand, so nobody feels the dice chose something that was never on the table.

The core of the product is a ritual, not a search box: first you set the boundaries together — cuisine, price range, minimum rating, radius and open now — and only then do you roll. The dice is real: a three.js 3D scene embedded in a WebView, with the library and the models bundled into the app assets and served through WebViewAssetLoader (ES modules will not load from file://, so a virtual https host was needed). Nothing is downloaded, so the roll looks the same at home and in an underground car park. Venue data comes from the Places API (searchByText, address autocomplete, photos), the position from play-services-location, and distances from the Routes API over REST — along roads rather than in a straight line, because when picking a restaurant it is the drive time that counts, not the gap on the map. The drawn venue gets a why this one section that spells out the criteria it meets — that is what turns a random draw into a decision the group accepts. On the code side I deliberately stayed simple: the whole app is one ViewModel with a single UiState in a StateFlow, the screens are purely presentational, and three repositories are wired by a hand-written DI container — at this scale Hilt would be pure overhead. Favourites, ratings, filters and the roll history live in DataStore, so the app remembers the settings and where you have already been. On top of that, four tabs in a single NavHost: dice, list, a dark-styled map and saved places.

A night out now starts with a roll rather than a debate — and it works, because the decision comes from outside the group while still sitting inside what everyone agreed to beforehand. Instead of browsing a list you get one venue, the reason it fits, and navigation in a single tap. It is a personal product, written for my own evening use: native Compose, everything from Android 8.0 up, shipped as an App Bundle with splits and R8, in Polish and English.