davidalphafox / flutter-inventory-app

A Flutter-firebase realtime inventory management App.

Inventory management app

A simple approach to inventory management in retail or small business. This app is focused on making the sales entry, stock entry as fast as practically possible.

Features/Concepts Highlights

• Advanced state management solutions like provider,
• Use of singleton objects for caching and accessing the instance throughout the code.
• Implementation of Navigation Drawers, tabs, search bars, autocompletion and fuzzy like search algorithms.
• Use of Streams for live UI updates, Datatables for better data view, routes for screens.
• Using batches for failproof db operations, Role base db modifications.
• Testing in flutter application.
• Data Export/Import from CSV dumps.
• Online and Offline No SQL data storage with firebase's cloud_firestore.
• Integration of Authentication like google signin, email authentication with firebase_auth.
• Continuous integration for streamlined devflow

App overview

Project Installation:

1. Install and try out the apk!

Head over to the release page to try out the apps. APK Releases

2. Building yourself

1. Get Flutter

• Install flutter : Flutter Installation

2. Clone this repo

$ git clone https://github.com/hemanta212/inventory_app.git
$ cd inventory_app

3. Setup the firebase app

1. You'll need to create a Firebase instance. Follow the instructions at https://console.firebase.google.com.
2. Once your Firebase instance is created, you'll need to enable Google authentication.

• Go to the Firebase Console for your new instance.
• Click "Authentication" in the left-hand menu
• Click the "sign-in method" tab
• Click "Google" and enable it

3. Enable the Firebase Database

• Go to the Firebase Console
• Click "Database" in the left-hand menu
• Click the Cloudstore "Create Database" button
• Select "Start in test mode" and "Enable"

4. (skip if not running on Android)

• Create an app within your Firebase instance for Android, with package name com.yourcompany.news
• Run the following command to get your SHA-1 key:

keytool -exportcert -list -v \
-alias androiddebugkey -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore

• In the Firebase console, in the settings of your Android app, add your SHA-1 key by clicking "Add Fingerprint".
• Follow instructions to download google-services.json
• place google-services.json into /android/app/.

4. Run

Connect your device

$ flutter upgrade
$ flutter pub get
$ flutter run