🐵 Monkey is a smart expense management app built with Flutter, integrating AI-powered receipt scanning, currency conversion, and Firebase for data storage. To ensure high reliability, the app includes unit testing to validate its core functionalities, such as expense categorization, AI-based text extraction, and currency conversion.
🚀 Technologies Used Flutter – Cross-platform mobile development framework.
Firebase – For user authentication, cloud storage, and real-time database.
AI (OCR + Llama) – To recognize text from receipt images and categorize transactions.
Cloud Vision API – For advanced receipt text extraction.
n8n – Automates workflows, notifications, and service integrations.
Currency API – Fetches real-time exchange rates for currency conversion.
Flutter Test & Mockito – Implements unit testing for key app functionalities.
🛠 Key Features
📸 AI-powered Receipt Scanning – Automatically extracts transaction details from receipts.
📊 Expense Categorization – AI classifies expenses into categories like food, shopping, and utilities.
📅 Budget Tracking – Users can monitor their spending and set limits.
📈 Spending Insights & Reports – Visual analytics and spending trends for better financial management.
🔄 Cloud Sync & Backup – Secure and accessible expense tracking across multiple devices.
📲 Smart Notifications – Alerts for budget overages and upcoming payments.
💱 Real-time Currency Conversion – Automatically converts expenses into the user’s preferred currency.
🧪 Unit Testing – Ensures AI accuracy, reliable currency conversion, and seamless data processing.
💡 What I Learned ✅ Developing AI-powered financial applications ✅ Implementing real-time currency conversion ✅ Using Firebase for cloud-based expense tracking ✅ Enhancing application stability with unit testing
🎯 Looking Back Adding unit testing to Monkey significantly improved its reliability. By validating receipt scanning, categorization, and currency conversion, I ensured the app delivers accurate results and a seamless user experience.
✨ Future Plans: Expand AI capabilities and implement integration testing for enhanced accuracy! 🚀