App Progress

[anjalakaturi]

Project Check-In

Currently

• plantFile.JSON: holds plant information (id, name, dateLastWatered, daysBetweenWatering, type)
• plantData.swift: holds PlantData struct (correlates with JSON info), reads a JSON file for a list of PlantData objects, variable to hold the list
• ContentView.swift: displays the plants in a list with name, button to press when plant is watered, and number of days between watering
• I have been working on code to track when plants need to get watered based on the given data.

Screenshot of ContentView:

Next Steps:

• [x] Order plants based on how soon they need to be watered
• [ ] Allow users to add and update plant information
• [x] Implement Calendar with plant data to be able to track when plants need to get watered
• [ ] Update view and json when plant has been watered

Planned Feature List: https://github.com/anjalakaturi/plant/blob/main/planning/feature_list.txt

Learning:

• My main takeaway so far has been learning how to organize and connect all the different files. It can get confusing with all the different Views and models, but I am happy with the general setup of my project so far.

Is anything particularly exciting to you about what you’ve accomplished so far?

• Reading the JSON file of the plants and displaying them nicely. I was getting a lot of errors, but ended up solving all the issues.

Do you have any specific questions about how to proceed?

• Time related things in Swift have been confusing to read about. I tried to implement watering tracking using TimeInterval and Date, but it didn't work out. Going over how to use these or Calendar would be helpful.
• How to change a button when you press it

What have been the most challenging aspects so far?

• Figuring out the flow of the app has been difficult because it is hard to connect everything together.

[zef]

Great job so far Anjala! You're doing a great job figuring things out for yourself and putting things together!

Here's a little snippet on something you could do with the Calendar API to calculate time intervals instead of what you're doing now:

let now = Date()
if let targetDate = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .day, value: 6, to: now) {
    let secondsToTarget = now.distance(to: targetDate)
}

Another little note from something I saw in your code:

    var isReadyToWater: Bool {
        if (daysBeforeWatering == 0){
            return true
        }
        else{
            return false
        }
    }

    // Would be the same as:
    var isReadyToWater: Bool {
        return daysBeforeWatering == 0
    }

There's no need for an if/else when you are returning true/false from it! :)