My Orchids

An Android application for collecting information and images about orchids, tracking the growth of your orchids and making care easier through features like reminders.

Table of contents

• Background
• Current features
• Roadmap
• Tools and technologies being used
• Have a question? Want to chat?

📜 Background

I started this project to have a possibility to practice and implement new things I learn in android development.
One of my hobbies is keeping and collecting orchids and that also was part of my inspiration to develop this app.
I still work on this project whenever I have time and hope that I can release a full first version soon.

🎯 Current features

• Creating and edit a data set with information about an orchid
• Searching for a specific orchid data set
• Sharing you orchid data set
• Add/remove images to/from an orchid data set
• Add orchids to a collection, indicating you own one of that kind

🛣 Roadmap

• Implement MyOrchidsViewPager, inspired by MaterialViewPager
• Enable taking notes about your orchids 📝
• Implement a feature that enables the app to remind you of things like watering 💦
• Weather data API, see OrchidWeather 🌦
• Push notifications with alerts to warn you about outside temperatures that may damage your orchids standing outside 🥶⚠️
• Polishing the UI 💅✨

🧰 Tools and technologies being used

• Architecture - A collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps.
  • Data Binding - This support library allows you to bind your layouts' UI components to data sources in your app without the need for any Java/Kotlin code.
  • Lifecycles - Create a UI with components that automatically respond to lifecycle events such as creation of a fragment.
  • LiveData - An observable and lifecycle-aware data holder class.
  • Navigation - In-app navigation made easy. Also complex navigation information can be put in a central and visualized place with the Navigation graph.
  • Room - Abstraction layer over SQLite also providing benefits like compile-time verification of SQL queries.
  • ViewModel - Store and manage UI-related data in a lifecycle conscious way. It also allows data to survive configuration changes and easy scheduling of asynchronous tasks.
  • WorkManager - Handling persistent work across all Android API versions with a single uniform API.
• Miscellaneous and third party libraries
  • Coil for image loading backed by Kotlin Coroutines.
  • Dagger and Hilt for DI.
  • Kotlin Coroutines and Flow for managing asynchronous programming and stream processing.
  • LeakCanary for memory leak detection.

📬 Have a question? Want to chat?

Write me a mail 📧

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chat with me on matrix 💬. :)