A plant identifier, tracker, and plantcyclopedia.
This project is an Android app that aims to help you manage your plants and learn more about them in the process!
Our application allows you to save plants that you own and gives you notifications to water them. It also allows you to look up information about your plants like sunlight and temperature needs of the plant. The app also gives you a "Plant of the Week" which allows you to learn more about new plants and maybe find your new favourite plant!
In order to use the app, you need to log in with a valid google account.
The application needs the following:
- Camera Access
- Wireless Access
- Notification Access
In order to install the app on your Android phone, you will have to install the APK (which can be found here: ).
Before you install, please make sure that:
- Your device has the API Level 28 (or above), which corresponds to Android Version 9.0 (Pie).
- Google Drive has "Install unknown apps" permissions.
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How to give Google Drive "Install unknown apps" permissions?
From the Settings App, click on Apps & notifications -> Advanced -> Special app access -> Install unknown apps Please note that this may vary across various devices.
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In order to install the app, open the APK file with Package installer, and you're all set!
After you have followed the installation instructions, all you need to do is click on the little plant icon labelled "Growio", and the application should then run.
From the main screen, you can do the following things:
- Go to MyGarden
- This is the default screen that the application opens. It can also be accessed by the "MyGarden" button on the bottom left side of the screen.
- Go to the Plantcyclopedia
- This screen can be accessed by the "Plantcyclopedia" button on the bottom right side of the screen.
- Take/Upload a picture from your gallery to identify a plant
- This can be accessed by clicking the Camera button on the bottom center of the screen.
- When you click on the camera, it should open up two more buttons right above the camera button:
- The small picture button, which opens up your gallery and allows you to upload a pre-existing picture.
- The small capture button, which opens your device camera and allows you to take a new picture to use.
- Change your settings
- This can be accessed by clicking the three lines on the top left side of the screen.
From the MyGarden screen, you can:
- Look at the list and the details of the plants in your "MyGarden"
- To look at the details, click on any added plant. This should open up the details about the plant.
- Change the nickname of the plants in your "MyGarden"
- To do so, click on the plant in your "MyGarden" who's nickname you want to change. This opens up the details about the plant.
- Click on the pen write below the name of the plant. This should open up a text box that allows you to enter a nickname for your plant.
- Once you are done entering the nickname, click on "OK". This should change the nickname of your plant to the name you entered.
- Remove a plant from your garden.
- This screen can be accessed by the "Plantcyclopedia" button on the bottom right side of the screen.
- Click on the "Remove" button on the bottom center of the pop up. This should remove the plant from your garden.
- You can also go to the Plantcyclopedia page, the settings and the camera with the same instructions as for the Main Screen.
From the Plantcyclopedia page, you can:
- Look at the details of the "Plant of the Week".
- This should be the information that is displayed by default when you click on the Plantcyclopedia button on the bottom right side of your screen.
- Search for a plant by its name and add it to your "MyGarden"
- To do so, click on the search bar at the top of the screen. Once you enter the name of the plant here, the application should give you one or more suggestions for that plant name.
- If you click on any of these suggestions, it should open a pop up that gives you details about that plant and allows you to add it to your "MyGarden" by clicking the "Add to MyGarden" button at the bottom of the pop up.
- You can also go to the MyGarden page, the settings and the camera with the same instructions as for the Main Screen.
From the Settings page you can:
- Change the notification settings for the app
- If the notifications are turned on (toggle is blue) you can toggle the button and turn off the notification (toggle should become gray) and vice versa.
- Log out of the application by clicking on the "Logout" button at the bottom of the panel.
- Go back to the Main Screen by clicking anywhere outside the panel.
From the Camera button you can:
- Upload an existing picture from your gallery:
- To do so, click on the small picture button, which opens up your gallery and allows you to upload a pre-existing picture.
- To exit without selecting an image, click the back button on your device.
- Take a new picture using your device's camera.
- To do so, click on the small capture button, which opens your device camera and allows you to take a new picture to use.
- To exit without taking a picture, click the back button on your device.
- The plant you take a picture of/try to look up using the Plantcyclopedia might not be correctly identified.
- Grace Augustine Carlson -- Business Analyst
- Jaikrish Chitrarasu -- Senior System Analyst
- Erik Antonio Follette -- Project Manager
- Yash Garde -- Algorithm Specialist
- Saurabh Kanhegaonkar -- Software Development Lead
- Paridhi Khaitan -- Software Architect
- Daniela Fernandez Molina -- Quality Assurance Lead
- Noella Moraa Ogamba -- User Interface Specialist
- Sandra Maria Pekelis -- User Interface Specialist
- Priyal Rakesh Suneja -- Software Architect
- Darya A Verzhbinsky -- Database Specialist