Organiks Platform combines Android + GEMINI AI(multi-modal) + Firebase(for Auth and Storage), Organiks is aimed at being the Digitizing tool and an Affordable Farmers Assistant for the Agricultural Sector which has been neglected in terms of Technology here in Africa.
Organiks is a story of two friends from Nakuru, Kenya in Africa with a Love for Agriculture; one a MicroBiologist and the other a Techie in love with Coding. Boys who small-scale farming had fed and schooled them.
When we heard of GEMINI AI API late last year(2023), we thought of ideas and ways that this AI could be used to lower the losses that farmers(just like their parents) incur due to loss of their poultry, animals and even plants to diseases. And that is when project 'Mkulima na Gemini' started brewing in our heads, why? because we could use Gemini LLM on our own without knowledge of AI or ML and bring all the advantages GEMINI has to offer to the farmers at almost no extra cost.
The Platform aims at being a Farmers Offline First tool to store their farm records even when offline and when they have access to Internet Connection they can backup their data(i.e Offline First) to the Cloud(i.e Firebase) also within the project.
In combination with Offline First Record Keeping, Organiks has implemented the Gemini AI LLM which acts as a farmers assistant, in two ways as a chat assistant and Data Analyst, whether they might have doubts whether their birds, animals or plants have been attacked by diseases inline with Googles promise of "A world responsibly empowered by AI".
You can use Android Studio developed by Google.
For Gemini AI Assistant and Analyst.
You can get your key here Google AI Studio and replace it in envVariables.properties file in this folder structure(change folder structure to Project from Android) envVariables.properties
You can get Gemini API Docs here Gemini API Docs
For Firebase.
You can get your Web client secret here Firebase Console > authentication and replace it in res>values>strings.xml file
- N:B ==> This is required for your authentication with Google in the app.
Here are 2 videos showing how the GEMINI section works:
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Organiks is designed to be an offline-first tool for farmers, integrating advanced AI capabilities(from GEMINI) with user-friendly features. Below is a detailed breakdown of how each component of the app works:
- Chat Assistant: Provides farmers with instant advice on various farming queries.
- Data Analyst: Analyzes farm data and suggests actionable insights to improve productivity.
- Offline-First: Farmers can record their data offline, and it will sync to the cloud when an internet connection is available.
- Cloud Backup: Data is securely backed up using Firebase, ensuring that farmers never lose their valuable records.
- Secure Login: Uses Firebase Authentication to provide secure access to the app.
- Easy Setup: Users can quickly sign up and log in with their Google accounts.
- Farm Statistics: Displays key metrics and trends in farming activities.
- Customizable Views: Users can personalize their dashboard to focus on the data that matters most to them.
MVVM Architecture.
- Authentication:
- The apps authentication is done with the support of Firebase.
- Storage:
- The app is offline-first using ROOM with capabilities to backup the data to cloud i.e Firebase.
- GEMINI Assistant and Analyst:
- The app also utilizes GEMINI AI API, with multi-modal, markdown and chat support for providing context to the farmers in-case of follow-up questions.
- Android Framework - a set of software components that provide the foundation for building Android applications developed by Google.
- Kotlin Language - A programming language that makes coding concise, cross-platform, and fun developed by JetBrains
- Jetpack Compose - Android’s recommended modern toolkit for building native UI. It is an open-source Kotlin-based declarative UI framework for Android developed by Google.
- Gemini AI - a multi-modal large language model(LLM) developed by Google DeepMind.
- Firebase - An open source framework for building AI-powered apps with familiar code-centric patterns.
- Ktor Client - a multiplatform asynchronous HTTP client, which allows you to make requests and handle responses.
- ROOM DB - a library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
- Dagger Hilt - Kotlin Dependency Injection framework.
- Kotlinx-datetime - KotlinX multiplatform date/time library.
- Kotlinx-serilization - Kotlin multiplatform / multi-format serialization.
To run the application on android device/emulator:
- open project in Android Studio and run imported android run configuration
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