Treesearcher

Description

Treesearcher is a mobile app that allows you to observe collected data from your registered trees. The app provides:

• Visualizations of data
  • Sap Flow
  • Weather (Vapor Pressure Deficit, Temperature, Precipitation)
• Zoom and pan functionality to look at data over multiple time ranges
• Data comparison across the same periods of time
• Mark missing data as red points
• Checkboxes to show/hide certain types of data

Installation

git clone https://github.com/394-s21/treehealth
cd treehealth
npm install --global expo-cli
npm install

Running

expo start

Testing

npm test

Deployment

Set Up Firebase

• Go to the Firebase console
• Create or sign into an account
• Create a new project
• Click on Hosting
• Click Get started

Run the following commands in your local project directory

npm install -g firebase-tools
firebase init

• Select "Use existing project" and then select the project you just created from the list Firebase shows
• Select only Database and Hosting
• When it asks where the web code is, enter web-build
• When it asks if this is a single-page app, say Yes
• When it asks if you want Github integration, say No
• Hit return to give the default answer for any other questions asked

Manually Deploy

expo build:web
firebase deploy

Automate Deployments

• Generate a Firebase token by following these instructions
• Create a repository secret called FIREBASE_TOKEN for your repository by following these instructions
• Now on push to the master branch, this GitHub Actions workflow will run and deploy your updated code to Firebase

Platform Constraints

• Web
  • Runs well on Google Chrome
  • Other browsers either have some unexpected behaviors or are untested
• Mobile
  • iOS version has several issues
  • Android version works but is a bit slow

Known Bugs and Limitations

• Uses local test data instead of live data from a database
• Loading of local test data causes the app to be slow
• Tree registration and user authentication is not yet implemented