Notes on Building a Meditation App (Day 14)

Enabling Audio in the App This is a long standing task. I tried to implement this feature but was unsuccessful. Let’s see how we fare now. Supporting Material Community Solution to the sound looping problem Digital Pro’s No Code Academy Tutorial on Custom Action Important Background Context BuildContext In Flutter, the build context represents the location of a widget within the widget tree. It allows widgets to interact with other widgets and access data and services provided by higher-level widgets. Steps Completed Used the code structure as provided in the Community Solution ...

March 13, 2024 · 1 min · 189 words · Kaushal Bundel

Notes on Building a Meditation App (Day 13)

Product Related Thoughts Day before Yesterday, I had a fascinating discussion with a UI/UX specialist that delved into the core essence of our product and overall design philosophy. The conversation naturally drifted towards the uniqueness of our meditation app, its necessity, and the critical aspect of user engagement. This got me rethinking about the core nature of the app. About need for this meditation app The fundamental concept behind our product resonates with me. Even though I haven’t personally experienced it yet, I believe it holds significant benefits for its users. Perhaps I should dive in and immerse myself in its features to truly grasp its value and impact on my own well-being. ...

March 13, 2024 · 3 min · 578 words · Kaushal Bundel

Notes on Building a Meditation App (Day 12)

TODO An exciting new feature has been launched by Flutterflow which can be quite useful for user onboarding. This feature is called “walkthrough”. Through this feature, I can do entire app walkthrough while the user first logs in the app. Flutterflow demo on app walkthrough TODO Another exiting tutorial by “The Digital Pro’s NoCode Academy” on “building beautiful charts” in Flutterflow. This has a special utility for me as with this I could create the date wise charts for “Meditation completion” and “Mood Board Completion” tracking. TODO - Implement Good to have user experience Ripple Wave effect : This can be used on the meditation page : Implementation complete Implementation (Important from the POV of creating Custom Widgets) Reference Video: Flutterflow Tutorial on Custom Widgets ...

March 12, 2024 · 2 min · 244 words · Kaushal Bundel

Notes on Building a Meditation App (Day 11)

We are at the last leg of the development effort for Phase 0. This is a time filled with both fear and excitement. The stakes are high and the possibility of mistakes is significant, yet the opportunity for learning is abundant. In terms of developmental efforts, Core functionalities are defined and implemented Major UX work is complete. The app flow is more or less defined. For whom the app is, What the app will do and how it will work is also defined ...

March 6, 2024 · 2 min · 364 words · Kaushal Bundel

Notes on Building a Meditation App (Day 10)

Today’s Implementation WAITING Nav-Bar improvements State “WAITING” from “IN-PROGRESS” [2024-03-02 Sat 15:39] Flutter needs to be installed on the Device State “IN-PROGRESS” from “TODO” [2024-03-02 Sat 15:23] Flutterflow includes three types of Nav-bar implementations: Flutter Default Nav Bar, Google Nav Bar and Floating Nav Bar. I had initially implemented Flutter Default Nav Bar, the problem with the implementation was that the Nav Bar throws an error if you need a Nav bar on the pages for easy navigation that are not present on the Nav Bar (for eg. I do not have the meditation timer page on the nav bar yet I want the Nav bar to be present on the page for easy user navigation). ...

March 5, 2024 · 3 min · 539 words · Kaushal Bundel