Travel Destination & Weather Tracker

A cross-platform .NET MAUI mobile application that allows users to:

• Track travel destinations
• Record and view expenses (including hotel-specific and generic)
• View detailed weather forecasts for selected cities

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✨ Features

📍 Destinations Management

• Add, edit, or delete travel destinations
• Set status: Planned, Ongoing, Completed, or Cancelled
• Start and end dates
• Duration, rating, and travel purpose
• Cities dynamically fetched based on selected country

🌎 Weather Forecasts

• Fetch 7-day forecasts via WeatherAPI.com
• View:
  • Current weather
  • Hourly forecast with icons and temperature
  • 3-day forecast with min/max temperatures
  • Wind speed, humidity, and rain chance

💰 Expense Tracking

• Add generic expenses by type and value
• Add hotel expenses from Amadeus hotel API:
  • Hotel name, price per night, duration, total
  • Edit hotel booking duration only via hotel details
• View total expenses per destination

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💡 Technologies Used

• .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI)
• SQLite local database
• Amadeus API for hotel listings
• WeatherAPI for weather data
• XAML & C# for UI and business logic

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🚫 Sensitive Data Handling

All API keys are stored securely in appsettings.json, which is excluded from version control using .gitignore.

Sample appsettings.json

{
  "Amadeus": {
    "ClientId": "YOUR_AMADEUS_CLIENT_ID",
    "ClientSecret": "YOUR_AMADEUS_CLIENT_SECRET"
  },
  "WeatherApiKey": "YOUR_WEATHER_API_KEY"
}

Don't forget to update your ConfigurationService.cs to read from this file at runtime.

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💪 Key Architectural Decisions

• Basic Navigation is used for all routing between pages instead of Shell
• NavigationContext.cs stores temporary navigation data like destinations, country lists, etc.
• MVVM was initially considered but MVU was used due to project requirements.

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📓 Future Improvements

• Authentication (Firebase or Azure AD B2C)
• Cloud sync for destinations and expenses
• More advanced filtering and reporting
• Hotel booking integration

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📁 Folder Structure

- Models/           // Domain models like Destination, Expense, Hotel
- Services/         // API & database services (Weather, Amadeus, SQLite)
- Pages/            // XAML pages for Destinations, Hotels, Weather, Expenses
- Utils/            // Shared utilities and navigation context
- appsettings.json  // API Keys (excluded from git)

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone this repo
2. Create your own appsettings.json in the project root
3. Add your Amadeus and Weather API credentials
4. Run the app via Visual Studio

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✍️ Author - Decho Dechev

Built with determination, iterations, and late nights ☕️

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📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.