Plant Social

This is plant social, and the project's goal is to create an app to provide information to users about plants, including information on how to care for a plant. The app will also provide a platform for users to interact with other users about sharing information on plants and to provide a service to exchange or give their plants to other users. Users can also take a picture of a plant, and the application will identify its type. The first picture says, "Add plant type" The app fills this in; if it is wrong, users can change the value.

This was a group project, and I was on both the software engineer and usability engineer teams. My contribution to this project was helping to design the application, helping develop the front end, and designing and implementing the database. For the database work, we used Firebase as it was easiest to implement with Flutter.

This project was developed in Flutter and uses Dart. The whole team had to learn Flutter and Dart during this project, as we needed to gain experience using these tools. To help maintain a clean and organized project, we each forked a main git repo with the working code. This allows us to work and then merge changes to the main repo individually. We also used the GitHub Kanban board to help with project management. During the development of this project, we would also have weekly scrum meetings to see where we are at with the project and how well this sprint is going. Toward the end, we did some user testing to see how well our application performed. Overall we could get a solid working application within a short period.