Home Inventory Android App with Room-by-Room Photo Records and Insurance Value Export

Household belongings are usually documented only after something goes wrong — a theft, a fire or water damage — when owners must reconstruct from memory what was in each room, what it cost and what it was worth. Memory-based lists miss serial numbers, purchase dates and proof of ownership, which weakens insurance claims and makes replacement planning guesswork. This project builds a native Android app in Kotlin that keeps a structured, photo-backed inventory before any loss occurs: every item is recorded under its room with a photograph, purchase date, purchase price, estimated current value, serial number, warranty date and notes, all stored locally in a Room (SQLite) database. A dashboard totals value per room and for the whole home, search and filters locate any record quickly, and an insurance export generates a PDF summary and a CSV item list on the device for sharing with an insurer or family members.

1. The user creates rooms for the home — for example Living Room, Kitchen, Bedroom and Study — which are stored as rows in the rooms table of the Room database.
2. Inside a room, the user adds an item by photographing it with the camera or gallery, then entering its name, purchase date, purchase price, estimated current value, serial number, warranty date and notes; the entry is saved as a row in the items table linked to that room.
3. The dashboard runs aggregate queries over the items table to sum the estimated current value per room and across the whole home, and displays each room total with its item count.
4. Search queries match the entered text against item name, serial number and notes, while the room filter restricts the list query to one room; results open the same item detail screen used for editing.
5. When an item is edited or deleted, the change is written to the database and the dashboard, room list and search results all read the updated data, so totals never need manual recalculation.
6. For the insurance export, the app reads every room and item, writes a PDF summary document with grouped items and totals, and writes a CSV file with one row per item and all recorded fields.
7. The generated PDF and CSV files are handed to the Android share sheet via a FileProvider URI, so the user can send them to an insurer, save them to Drive, or print the PDF — the choice stays with the user.

Tech stack:

• Kotlin
• Android Jetpack · Room · ViewModel
• SQLite (via Room)
• Material 3 UI components
• CameraX · gallery image picker
• Android PdfDocument API · CSV writer
• Android share sheet · FileProvider
• Gradle · Android Studio

• [Room-by-room organisation] Items are grouped under rooms such as Living Room, Kitchen, Bedroom and Study, so the inventory mirrors how a home is actually arranged. Rooms can be added, renamed or removed, and every item belongs to exactly one room.
• [Photo record for every item] Each item entry stores a photograph captured with the device camera or picked from the gallery, shown as a thumbnail in lists and full-size on the detail screen. The photo acts as visual proof of the item and its condition.
• [Purchase and value tracking] Every record holds purchase date, purchase price, estimated current value, serial number, warranty expiry date and free-text notes alongside the photo. Keeping purchase price and current value as separate fields shows depreciation honestly instead of hiding it.
• [Home value dashboard] The home screen totals the estimated current value for each room and for the whole home, with the item count per room, computed live from the database. Any add, edit or delete updates the dashboard figures immediately.
• [Search and room filters] A search box matches item names, serial numbers and notes, and room chips filter the list to a single room. This locates a warranty date or serial number in seconds during a service visit or claim call.
• [Insurance export in PDF and CSV formats] One action generates an insurance pack on the device: a PDF summary grouped by room with per-room and overall totals, and a CSV file listing every item with all its fields. Both files are shared through the standard Android share sheet.
• [Fully offline local storage] All rooms, items and photos stay on the device in a Room (SQLite) database with no cloud account, server or internet connection required for the base build. Inventory work continues in homes with poor connectivity and no data leaves the phone unless the user shares an export.

• Complete Android source code (Kotlin) with Room database, dashboard and export code
• Installable demo build (APK) of the inventory app
• Setup instructions covering Android Studio, camera permission and sample data entry
• Sample exported insurance PDF and CSV generated from demo data
• Project report PDF (background, database design, export workflow, methodology)
• PPT presentation for final review
• Viva Q&A preparation document (Room entities and relations, aggregate queries, on-device document generation, offline-first design)