Purpose

I like to meditate. I do it every day. It helps me control my thoughts and provides a fertile mental state for creativity. My meditation process is simple but I have struggled to find a free app that provides for my needs without also cluttering it with things that I don't need.

Features

My meditation app, ThinkfulEric (coming soon to the Google Play store), is everything that I want and nothing more. It provides a simple countdown timer where additional chimes can be added at any interval you wish if you like a progressive meditation. In addition it records your meditations in a log along with few basic notes about the experience and your state of mind that you can write in if you wish.

I wrote it using Expo so it can run on every major platform easily. For now I am targeting Android devices but anybody can clone the repo and build it for iOS if they wish.

Technology

I used Expo because it provides a nice framework for development. I didn't need to write any native code for this project so there was no need to eject it. Much of the code you write is as you would for React Native which I enjoy working with as I am already familiar with React. Expo provides TypeScript support out of the box which I appreciate as well.

This was a fairly simple project but I have some ambitions for mobile development and so have already begun to dip my toe into writing pure native code in Kotlin.

See the full implementation for yourself on GitHub.

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