ytro / uwp-client-app

Solo project: UWP client app for the final project of 3rd year of engineering (INF3995)

UWP Demo App

Intro

This is an application I developed from scratch, fully in solo, for the course INF3995 (final project of third year of engineering) - although the scope of the full project was larger than this project alone.

It is a MVVM client app made for UWP (now deprecated), but uses similar systems to an ASP.NET Core app.

As part of a bigger project, its purpose was to monitor a custom blockchain and its miners through a log viewer and a blockchain visualizer, aswell as providing user management. As a client app, data is retrieved by querying a REST API - to fetch the blocks, the logs and the users who can login and use the app. The app can only be used past a login page, which uses a simple OAuth system (login token).

Technicals

Although the app is a bit old today, it used a couple of cool features at the time, including, but not limited to:

• databinding (with viewmodels)
• relay commands
• dependency injection
• a resource loader
• json schemas
• a config file manager
• a few unit tests with mocked data
• a splash screen

Flow

On launch, the app requires the user to login. Doing so retrieves a login token, which is used for every subsequent request.
(Seen below: Splash screen on the left, Login page on the right)

Past the login screen, the app offers four main views : a blockchain viewer, a logs viewer, a user manager, a settings page. When switching to one view, the previous one remains alive.
(Seen below: Logs viewer on top left, User manager on top right, Blockchain viewer on bottom left, Settings page on bottom right)

(Not illustrated, but some care was given to UI aspects. For instance, the blockchain viewer illustrates the state of the block - red = 1 confirmation, yellow = 2, green = 3)