Plant It

Abstract

1. Introduction

Plant-it is a gardening companion app.Useful for keeping track of plant care, receiving notifications about when to water plants, uploading plant images, and more.

Plant-it is a gardening companion app that helps you take care of your plants.

Plant-it helps you remember the last time you did a treatment of your plants, which plants you have, collects photos of your plants, and notifies you about the time passed since the last action on them.

2. Objective

🪴 Open source Android gardening companion app

This project demonstrates how Dart, Flutter can be applied to a real-world Mobile App Development problem.

3. Key Features / Modules

• Add existing plants or user-created plants to your collection
• Log events like watering, fertilizing, biostimulating, etc. for your plants
• View all the logged events, filtering by plant and event type
• Upload photos of your plants
• Set reminders for some actions on your plants (e.g., notify if not watered every 4 days)

4. Technology Stack

5. System Requirements

General requirements for this technology stack — check the README for exact versions.

• Flutter SDK
• Android Studio or VS Code with Flutter plugin
• Android / iOS device or emulator
• Git (to clone the repository)

6. Installation & Setup

git clone https://github.com/MDeLuise/plant-it.git
cd plant-it

Full setup instructions are in the project README.

7. Future Enhancements

Suggested extensions you can add to make this your own project.

• Add push notifications with Firebase Cloud Messaging
• Add offline support with local caching
• Publish an internal test build on the Play Store

8. Viva / Review Questions

Common questions examiners ask for projects in this domain.

1. Which framework is used and why (native vs cross-platform)?
2. How is app state managed across screens?
3. Where is the data stored — locally, Firebase or a REST backend?
4. How are permissions (camera, location, storage) handled?
5. How would you publish this app to the Play Store / App Store?

9. Source Code & License

This project is developed by MDeLuise and published on GitHub under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Please follow the license terms and credit the original author when you use or modify this code.