DemoTimeTracker

A lightweight .NET MAUI desktop demo app built to showcase modern MVVM architecture, SQLite persistence, and responsive UI design.
Created by Altura Codeworks — a boutique software studio focused on dependable software modernization and pragmatic engineering.

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🧭 Overview

DemoTimeTracker helps you manage projects, track working time, and view daily and weekly summaries — all in a single, local .NET MAUI app.
It’s a demonstration project, designed to illustrate production-style organization, not a commercial product.

🧩 Features

🎯 Core Functionality

• Add and manage projects with hourly rates
• Start/stop timer for the current project (only one active timer at a time)
• Add, edit, and delete manual time entries
• View daily and weekly totals
• Automatic calculation of billable amount

📊 Summary View

• Period filters: Today / This Week / This Month / All Time
• Key metrics: total hours, total amount, average per day, sessions count
• Daily breakdown with time and amount per day

💾 Tech Highlights

• .NET 9 MAUI with MVVM
• Entity Framework Core (SQLite) for persistence
• Dependency Injection for services and repositories
• Reactive UI bindings for timer updates

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## 🏗️ Architecture
DemoTimeTracker/
├── Models/ # Project and TimeEntry entities
├── Data/ # EF Core DbContext + Migrations
├── Services/ # Repository + TimeTracking logic
├── ViewModels/ # MVVM layer for pages
├── Views/ # XAML pages and content views
└── Resources/Styles/ # Color + style definitions (Gamma palette)

Pattern: MVVM + Repository
Database: SQLite (local, auto-created)
Dependency Injection: via MauiProgram.cs

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• .NET SDK 9.0 or newer
• Visual Studio 2022 (17.10+) with MAUI workload installed

Run locally

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/DemoTimeTracker.git
cd DemoTimeTracker
dotnet build
dotnet run

When launched, the app automatically creates a local SQLite database at:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\DemoTimeTracker\timetracker.db3

🧮 Demo Data (optional)

You can load sample data for testing:

sqlite3 %LOCALAPPDATA%\DemoTimeTracker\timetracker.db3 < seed.sql

🖋️ Credits

Developed by Yuriy Mykhalchuk https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuriy-mykhalchuk-b964ba10/

© 2025 Altura Codeworks

🌐 Links:

🌍 Website: https://alturacodeworks.com

💼 Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/agencies/alturacodeworks/

💻 GitHub: https://github.com/ymykhal