Devlog 2 – June 3-6, 2026

Another update on my recipe generator app: bugfixes, figma and images!

I first took the time to look into a few bugs I was experiencing, like the images and recipe preview disappearing briefly after loading and reappearing. The preview cards would also glitch if the make recipe button was clicked while it was swiping off screen. These were both pretty quick fixes, and I decided to clean up some code after and remove some old functions.

The next feature I wanted to add was unique images, as at the time, every recipe used the same placeholder image. I thought of using an image generator as the user swipes, but I realised that would be far too expensive and slow. Instead, I used gemini on the web to generate 10 images of different meal categories (e.g. seafood, dessert, salad…) on the same plate and removed the backgrounds, and saved them to a folder in the project.

I then made the AI that was generating the recipe also choose a recipe image category from the available images. I then replaced the placeholder to display that image! In the future, I will definitely add more specific recipe categories (100+ categories) to make the images more accurate to the recipe. I also worked on some figma designs for other parts of the app!

Here’s a little preview so far of swiping with the new images: