Report: Mobile Application Integration for Picoso Restaurant

This report focuses on the integration of a mobile application for the Picoso restaurant, highlighting the advantages of mobile apps over desktop applications, such as faster operation, customization, reduced data usage, and various features like camera and GPS integration. The report details the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) of the front-end UI, including user registration, home page design, payment options, personal details updates, and push notifications. Furthermore, it explores alternative development strategies, comparing in-house development with contracting external organizations. The report concludes that mobile applications can significantly improve restaurant sales and customer engagement. It emphasizes the importance of a well-designed front-end and provides insights into choosing between in-house and commercial application development.

Integration of mobile application
Name of the student
Name of the University
Author Note
INTEGRATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION Page 1

Executive Summary
This report discusses the use of the mobile application in the Picoso restaurant. The importance
of the mobile application over the desktop application has been depicted in the report. The
report also focuses on the work break down structure of the front end of the mobile
application. There are recommendation provided in the end of the report that helps in
improving the choice of using mobile application rather than the desktop application.
INTEGRATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION Page 2

Table of Contents
1. Introduction:.............................................................................................................................. 4
2. Discussion:............................................................................................................................. 4
2.1 Company Overview:.............................................................................................................4
2.2 Benefit of mobile application over desktop applications:....................................................5
2.3 Topic 2: Work Breakdown Structure....................................................................................6
2.4 Topic 3: Alternatives to in-house development...................................................................8
3. Conclusion................................................................................................................................. 9
References................................................................................................................................... 10
INTEGRATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION Page 3

1. Introduction:
The mobile application in the business organization have helped in maintaining and
enhancing the business process in the market. The efficiency of the business purposes have
been increased in the market with the implementation of the mobile application. This report
includes various advantages of the mobile applications in the business organization. This report
provides a work breakdown structure for improvising front-end user interface requirements.
The work breakdown structure have helped in providing proper front-end evaluation if the
mobile application. There are some recommendation provided in the end of the report for
including the choice between in-house and commercial applications.
2. Discussion:
2.1 Company Overview:
Picoso is a Mexican restaurant franchisee that works in numerous business areas in the
Sunshine Coast. The business exercises of the restaurants incorporate feasting of clients where
they are just permitted to eat inside the restaurant. The restaurant additionally has a site,
which is primarily used to arrange take-outs from the eateries. This encourages clients to come
and take their request from the restaurant. The report incorporates an examination among the
portable applications and the sites that will be utilized as a part of the eateries to receive the
conveyance administration of the restaurant. Clients will be more than able to arrange from the
eateries without the requirement for going in the eateries. These requests will be finished by
conveyance procedure of the restaurant (Morreale et al., 2014). This selection will enable the
restaurant to make more benefits and drive more deals. Moreover, the action of brand
INTEGRATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION Page 4

introduction will likewise expand which will help the restaurant to get more clients and achieve
a high state in the market.
2.2 Benefit of mobile application over desktop applications:
The modern world has been benefited by the use of the mobile applications over the
desktop application. People prefer mobile applications to desktop applications. The benefits of
the mobile applications are mentioned below:
Fast operation
The operation function of the mobile application is faster than the desktop application.
The mobile application stores data in the local devices. This helps in accessing the data and
information for the running the application is fast (Viberg & Grönlund, 2017). On the other
hand, the data and information of the desktop applications are stored in the servers and
networks that requires internet to access them. Therefore, it becomes slow to access the data
and information of the servers. The desktop applications uses the java script for working and
functioning in the internet. Therefore, it becomes slow in responding to the users (Gao et al.,
2014). The mobile application get access form the local database that helps in providing an
offline access to the data and information requested by the users.
Customization
The second advantage of the mobile application is that it can be easily customized
locally. The websites uses cookies that helps in accessing the previous request provided by the
users. However, this does not always happen due to the antivirus program installed in the
INTEGRATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION Page 5

desktop. On the other hand, mobile application filters all the previous request provided by
users and maintain a record of the engagement (Shaw & Tan, 2015). The data is stored in the
local server of the mobile that helps in gathering the cookies for fast access.
Reduction in data usage
The data usage in the mobile application less than the desktop application. In the case
of the desktop application, internet connection is always required for access the material over
the desktop application. This causes extra usage of the data and memory of the internet. On
the other hand, the mobile applications uses less data and can run in offline mode (Lin et al.,
2016). In this case, the Picoso restaurant can uses their mobile app, which can run in offline
mode. This helps in customers to contact with the restaurant in the absence of internet.
Therefore, the engagement of the customers with the restaurant increase with the use of the
mobile application for the restaurant.
Various features
The use of the mobile devices helps in providing various features including camera, GPS
and Bluetooth. This features helps in providing extra features in the mobile application as using
an instant profile picture for the profile in the mobile application (Pais et al., 2016). Turning in
the location helps in locating the current position of the user that makes the delivery of the
food easy. On the other hand, these features are not present in the mobile applications. The
barcode scanner is used to estimate price of various items and products that can be purchased
online.
2.3 Topic 2: Work Breakdown Structure
INTEGRATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION Page 6

The work breakdown structure appeared in this report is utilized to portray the
exercises of the front-end UI of the mobile application. These exercises will be coordinated in
the business operations. The client information exchange is the principal highlight of the
application. This page is utilized to access the framework. Subsequent to introducing the
application, this primary page will open before the client's gadget (Kuo-Hung et al., 2016). This
page is utilized to get validation highlights from the clients and furthermore to get leads. There
are two divisions of this element, which incorporates the information exchange and the sign-in
parts. The initial segment is utilized by new clients while the second part is utilized by existing
clients. In the wake of getting email and secret word from the clients, they are conceded access
to the framework.
INTEGRATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION Page 7

Figure 1: Work Breakdown Structure
(Source: Created by author)
The home page is an essential element of this application. The primary necessity of the
home page is the requirement for an extraordinary UI, which will feature the brand of the
restaurant franchisee. This will likewise build the brand an incentive in the market. This is the
primary prerequisite of a portable application as an awesome interface and plans is important
to prevail in the market (Giles, A. K., Kraft, S., & Henderson, 2017). In addition, the home page
shows a rundown of arrangements and combo offers which are utilized to demonstrate
nourishment things as indicated by the inclinations of the client. This builds the quantity of
offers made in the day and expands the income produced (Palmieri, Singh and Cicchetti 2012).
What's more, clients can likewise look for a specific sustenance thing from the rundown of
requests accessible. The sustenance symbol indicated will demonstrate a star rating over it that
will rank the nourishment things out of 5. These appraisals depend on the inputs got by the
clients.
The installment alternative is the following qualities of the portable application. Each
client will have a caret choice which will be utilized to store the sustenance arranges with the
goal that they can arrange mass things from the restaurant. What's more, the truck highlight
will likewise enable the clients to alter the requests in view of their inclinations and
furthermore include/expel them from the truck (Lamprinakos et al., 2014). This choice gives
adaptability and expands engagement on their stage. The requests, which are set, are then
INTEGRATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION Page 8

explored by the client and after that they are permitted to look at of the procedure by paying
for the administrations. This is to get the requests for conveying at their doorsteps.
The individual subtle elements page is the following element of the mobile application.
This page is essentially used to refresh the individual accreditations of the clients. This
incorporates refreshing the address, name, and pin code or email id of the clients. This area is
utilized for both the current and additionally the new clients (Hao et al. 2013). The current
clients can refresh their accreditations while the new clients can give their clients. This
diminishes the time required to give address each season of putting orders.
Finally, the push level notice is another component, which adds to the advantages of the
portable application mix. These push warnings are dependably appeared at the highest point of
the screen or at the bolt screen. This keeps the clients drew in about the items and
administrations and consequently builds the deals made by an organization or business
association. Normal refresh warning is another method for giving the clients a chance to feel
more connected with the application.
2.4 Topic 3: Alternatives to in-house development
This section examines about the nearness of exchange strategies for mobile application
advancement. There are essentially two sorts of utilization advancement. One is the legally
binding workings where an outside organization is given an agreement for making the
application. Another strategy is simply the in-house improvement where the organization itself
makes the application. This is the essential prerequisite for a mobile application reception,
which is important before starting with a business (Shiraz et al. 2013). The outside organizations
INTEGRATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION Page 9

are in charge of completely building up the application as per the prerequisites of a customer.
This gives an advantage of avoiding the bothers of programming and included costs. In any
case, the business approaches may not generally agree to the contractual worker's
arrangements, which may bring about debate in the application systems. In addition, an
application supplier may offer their administrations for a less expensive rate and after that trap
the organizations by vanishing with their cash. This is the fundamental establishment of a
phony organization. Moreover, full custom rights are not gave to the customer organization,
which makes them take the assistance of the contractual workers each time they require a
refresh.
3. Conclusion
It can be concluded that use of the mobile application in the restaurant have helped in
development of the strategies for succeeding in the market. The benefits of mobile applications
over the desktop applications have been discussed in the report that helps in encouraging the
use of the mobile applications for the restaurant. The WBS of the front end of the mobile
applications have provided the front-end infrastructure of the mobile applications for making it
user-friendly. The use of the mobile application have helped in increasing the sales of the
restaurant.
INTEGRATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION Page 10

References
Gao, J., Bai, X., Tsai, W. T., & Uehara, T. (2014). Mobile application testing: a
tutorial. Computer, 47(2), 46-55.
Giles, A. K., Kraft, S., & Henderson, R. (2017). MOBI: An Interprofessional Mobile Application for
Teaching Use of Ambulatory Assistive Devices. American Journal of Occupational
Therapy, 71(4_Supplement_1), 7111510176p1-7111510176p1.
Hao, S., Li, D., Halfond, W. G., and Govindan, R. (2013, May). Estimating mobile application
energy consumption using program analysis. In Software Engineering (ICSE), 2013 35th
International Conference on (pp. 92-101). IEEE.
Kuo-Hung, C., Kuo-En, C., Chung-Hsien, L., & Yao-Ting, S. (2016). Integration of Mobile AR
Technology in Performance Assessment. Journal of Educational Technology &
Society, 19(4), 239.
Lamprinakos, G. C., Mousas, A. S., Kapsalis, A. P., Kaklamani, D. I., Venieris, I. S., Boufis, A. D., ...
& Mantzouratos, S. G. (2014, November). Using FHIR to develop a healthcare mobile
application. In Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (Mobihealth), 2014 EAI
4th International Conference on (pp. 132-135). IEEE.
Lin, I. M., Huang, C. Y., Hung, Y. T., Lin, H. Y., Ko, C. I., & Chen, S. P. (2016). The integration of
breathing training into mobile application on heart rate variability. International Journal
of Psychology, 51, 154.
INTEGRATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION Page 11

Morreale, P., Goncalves, A., Church, D., Holtz, S., Lisojo, J., Lozano, N., ... & Bonafide, J. (2014,
June). Visual and Spatial Data Integration in Mobile Application Design. In International
Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies (pp. 173-181). Springer, Cham.
Pais, S., Parry, D., Rush, E., & Rowan, J. (2016, February). Data integration for mobile wellness
apps to support treatment of GDM. In Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science
Week Multiconference (p. 64). ACM.
Palmieri, M., Singh, I., and Cicchetti, A. (2012, October). Comparison of cross-platform mobile
development tools. In Intelligence in Next Generation Networks (ICIN), 2012 16th
International Conference on (pp. 179-186). IEEE.
Shaw, C. M., & Tan, S. A. (2015). Integration of Mobile Technology in Educational Materials
Improves Participation: creation of a novel smartphone application for resident
education. Journal of surgical education, 72(4), 670-673.
Shin, C., Hong, J. H., and Dey, A. K. (2012, September). Understanding and prediction of mobile
application usage for smart phones. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on
Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 173-182). ACM.
Shiraz, M., Gani, A., Khokhar, R. H., and Buyya, R. (2013). A review on distributed application
processing frameworks in smart mobile devices for mobile cloud computing. IEEE
Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 15(3), 1294-1313.
INTEGRATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION Page 12