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🌿 LeafHunter App Introduction

📌 Purpose

LeafHunter is an Android-based Pokémon GO-inspired app where users take pictures of plants to earn rewards. The app aims to turn users into volunteer scientists, contributing to ecological research by collecting valuable plant data.

✨ Features

• 📷 Take pictures of plants and earn rewards
• 🌱 AI-based plant identification (via Pl@ntNet API)
• 🔐 User authentication (Firebase) and location tracking
• 🗺️ Gamified experience to promote biodiversity awareness

Future development idea: 🌍 Open API for researchers to access anonymized plant location data

⚙️ Technologies

• 📱 OS: Android
• 🔥 Firebase products
  • 🔐 Authentication
  • 🖼️ Storage (Images)
  • 🗃️ Firestore Database
  • ⚡ Functions
• 🌿 API: Pl@ntNet API
• 🧑‍💻 IDE: Android Studio
• 💻 Programming languages used
  • 🧬 Kotlin
  • 🐍 Python

👥 Team Members

• Will Mitchell – UI & Design & Infrastructure
• Kian Moloney – All things related to Firebase & Location & Authentication
• Oskari Alaranta – Camera functionality

💎 Chosen features from the given options in the assignment

• Basic features:
  • Database integration
  • Permission requests
  • Images
  • Localization
• Advanced features:
  • Camera functionality
  • Authentication
  • Cloud-based database (Firebase)
  • External APIs (Pl@ntNet API)

Tampere University – Spring 2025
Course: #COMP.SE.221-2024-2025-1