emepox / Plapp

Plapp is a plant app created for the Android final project in CodeOp Kotlin Bootcamp.

PlantApp

1. Context
2. Features
3. Get started
   • Dependencies
   • Database prep
4. Support

Context

'Plapp' is an Android app project developed by @YakimchukAnna, @emepox, @MareikeHerrmann and @switcherette to id and keep track of your home plants' needs.

Features

• Plant information database (+20K entries)
• Plant identification by picture service
• User's plant library
• Watering notifications
• Featuring a 'Zen quote of the day' on home screen :)
• Calendar that displays watering events
• Authentication & Restoring plants when logging in from different phone

Setup

Dependencies

This project uses several additional libraries/dependencies:

• Firebase (Auth, AuthUI, Firestore cloud database)
• Room DB
• Koin
• Navigation
• ViewModel
• Paging
• Coroutines
• Retrofit
• Glide
• Lottie animations
• Gif drawable
• Material-Calendar-View (Applandeo)
• okhttp3
• page-indicator

Do not forget to build your project so that they can be implemented!

You will also need an API key to access Plant.id plant identification service.

• You can request one here. https://web.plant.id/
• Once you have it, just create a document called apikey.properties in your project root folder containing API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

Database Prep

• Download MySQL

Support

Feel free to ask us any doubt :)

Happy coding!