Major Feature Expansion, UI Enhancements, Refactors, and Angular 19 Upgrade

[IAM5K]

Overview

This pull request introduces a substantial set of improvements across the application, including new feature modules, UI/UX upgrades, AI-powered functionalities, performance refinements, fail-safes, notification support, SEO enhancements, and a full upgrade to Angular 19. This PR consolidates development work from February to December 2025.

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Key Highlights

1. New Features

• Added 0-expense functionality and improved related API flow.

• Introduced filter modal with custom date-range support in the expense module.

• Implemented icon-only buttons for small screens, improving mobile usability.

• Enabled comprehensive AI functionality throughout the app.

• Added Analyze module featuring:

  • Data visualization tools
  • Expense analytics

• Integrated quick goal addition, goal UI updates, and dashboard presentation enhancements.

• Introduced WhatsApp quick connect feature.

• Added group feature in the profile page.

• Implemented push notifications and platform-specific notification flow.

• Added PYQ (Previous Year Questions) module with:

  • Result components
  • Toaster support

• Added Shopping list improvements:

  • Refactored shopping list component
  • Added supporting documentation

• Implemented Ionic Storage service with basic CRUD operations.

• Added a fail-safe for budget retrieval and fail-safe for user ID checks.

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2. UI/UX Enhancements

• Updated the overall UI for improved consistency across modules.
• Improved goal presentation within the dashboard.
• Updated expense page for uniformity.
• Refactored login page for a cleaner user experience.
• Updated logo assets (multiple iterations).
• Added global custom CSS for shared UI patterns.
• Improved home page detail ordering.
• Enhanced goal interface and dashboard goals UI.
• Various UI improvements to dashboard, goals, and studies modules.

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3. Refactoring & Code Quality

• Removed redundant components.
• Removed multiple console log statements across modules.
• Updated logic flow in core modules.
• Refactored notification service handling.
• Refactored login page for improved UX and maintainability.
• Updated component structures across goal, shopping list, and PYQ modules.

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4. Configuration & Platform Updates

• Installed AI-related packages.
• Updated linting configuration.
• Updated Android bundle name and build settings.
• Added new files for Capacitor build.
• Updated IDE configuration.
• Upgraded application framework to Angular 19 (multiple commit iterations).
• Updated Angular dependencies and configuration for improved performance.

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5. SEO & Metadata Enhancements

• Updated SEO tags for improved search visibility.
• Added Bing verification tag.
• Enhanced social media meta tags.
• Updated index.html for better SEO coverage.

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6. Documentation

• Added documentation for:

  • Dashboard goal details
  • Shopping cart module

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Additional Fixes

• Fixed 0-expense API call issues.
• Removed aria-hidden attribute warning from UI component.

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Summary

This PR represents a major evolution of the application, delivering:

• A richer, more consistent UI/UX
• Stronger feature coverage across expenses, goals, analytics, notifications, shopping, and studies
• AI-driven capabilities
• Platform modernization via Angular 19
• Improved configuration reliability and fail-safes
• Cleaner, more maintainable codebase

The application is now more performant, user-friendly, and extensible for future enhancements.

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Checklist

• I have tested my changes locally.
• I have updated the documentation (if necessary).
• I have added tests (if applicable).
• I have reviewed my code to ensure it follows the project's coding standards.

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