Overview / Usage

The AgroConnect App project aims to address the challenges faced by farmers in accessing real-time market price information for their commodities. In many agricultural communities, farmers often struggle to obtain accurate and up-to-date pricing data, leading to uncertainty and potential losses in their sales transactions. To alleviate this issue, the AgroConnect was developed with the goal of providing farmers with timely and reliable market price updates directly on their mobile devices.

Methodology / Approach

1. Real-time Market Price Updates: Technique: Utilization of Retrofit library for making HTTP requests to fetch real-time market price data from external APIs. Theory: Retrofit is a type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java that simplifies the process of making network requests. It allows the application to interact with web services by defining an interface with methods corresponding to HTTP operations. Customization/Modifications: Customized Retrofit interface to include specific endpoints for fetching market price data for different commodities. Modified request headers and parameters to ensure compatibility with the target API endpoints. 2. Model-View-View Model (MVVM) Architecture: Technique: Implementation of MVVM architecture for separating concerns and improving code maintainability. Theory:MVVM is an architectural pattern that divides an application into three layers: Model, View, and View Model. The Model represents the data and business logic, the View represents the UI components, and the ViewModel acts as an intermediary between the Model and the View, handling UI-related logic and exposing data to the View. Customization/Modifications: Customized ViewModel classes to include business logic spe cific to fetching and processing market price data. Implemented data binding to establish com munication between the View and the ViewModel, enabling automatic updates of the UI when the underlying data changes. 3. Firebase Authentication: Technique:Implementation of Firebase Authentication for securing user accounts. Theory:Firebase Authentication is a service provided by Google that allows for easy authen tication of users using various methods such as email/password, phone number, or third-party providers like Google or Facebook. Customization/Modifications:Customized Firebase Authentication to include email/password authentication for user accounts. Modified authentication flow to ensure seamless integration with the application’s user management system.

Technologies Used

• Kotlin
• XML
• Java
• Android Studio
• Firebase
• API's

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