descatres / plants-and-friends

Android app, made in Java, to store plants data and track temperature and humidity

Plants&Friends

Plants compendium able to save and show plants:

• Names
• Species
• Image of the plants
• Descriptions

And able to track:

• temperature (of the room/place the plants are placed)
• humidity (of the room/place the plants are placed)

Other features

• Register/Login
• It is possible to create an online backup to Firestore to be able to restore all the data for each plant on, for example, a new device
• Alerts can be sent (notifications) if the value read by any of the sensors is outside the set interval by the user
• It is possible to search for each plant by name or species

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• You can check the mockups here

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How to run

• Fork the repo and run it on Android Studio
• The app can be run by changing the Firestore account with this tutorial
• You can run this script to simulate the Arduino with the sensors emitting data to your device through MQTT

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Examples

• Login/Register

• Homepage

• Add/Edit plant

• Alerts page

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Notes

• All the data received from the sensors is sent through MQTT
• The sensors feature only works until Android 12
• The images are being backed up to Firestore but it is not possible, yet, to download them (Check this issue)
• This project was made for a university assignment (the final project of that class) and the grade was 9.3/10. Some things might be missing due to the orientations given and/or time restrictions

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Made, with love, for Android (with Java)

plants-and-friends's Issues

Download images from Firestore Storage

Tasks

• Download the images to the android device;
• Get the downloaded image path, associate it to the respective plant and save it to the local storage;
• Remove the field "imgUri" from firestore database and local storage for all the existent, and future, plants (since it won't be needed anymore)

Notes:

• The images of the plants are already being uploaded to Firestore Storage (which works like a bucket).
• For the second task, the images are being saved online like this: path/userId/plantNumber. Check if the user has images uploaded, if so, check if any image has the same number locally and online.

Update readme

Update readme to have all the features, images and videos explaining and showing them.

Make repo public

Tasks

• Generate apk to let users test the app
• remove all api keys