This application assists with both timed (via duration or ending at a specific time) and untimed sessions, with numerous customizations, including start/interval/end sounds and device behavior. It also provides a monthly overview of your progress.
A major feature in this application is the ability to share your sessions online. Though entirely optional, sharing your progress online adds another dimension to your accountability. Now that you've gone public, as your meditation streak increases more users will see it as a goal of their own. One user has posted over 500 days of consecutive days of meditation.
Your meditation streak is the number of consecutive days you have recorded at least one session. As your streak grows, "not breaking the chain" becomes quite important. Soon you will be meditating once a day, even if it's five or ten minutes out of your schedule.
Key features:
- Automatically put your device into priority only, alarms only, vibrate or silent mode while meditating
- Choose from several included meditation sounds, or use a sound file of your own
- Play an interval sound at a duration of your choice
- Pause your session and come back to it when you're ready
- Post meditation sessions online to MediNET, and visit the MediNET meditation forum
- Choose any Holo theme for the application: light, light with dark action bar, or dark
- Many more features are included, and new features are added with each version
This application is open source: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/meditationassistant
Feedback is welcome. Several features now implemented were originally ideas from users. Open an issue describing your issue/idea: https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/meditationassistant/issues
Translate Meditation Assistant into your language: https://www.getlocalization.com/meditationassistant/
Developed by Rocket 9 Labs: https://rocket9labs.com
1.6.7:
- Reset pre-1.6.6 custom sound preferences to accommodate storage permission changes
- Fix PendingIntents missing FLAG_MUTABLE on Android 13+
- Fix selecting custom sounds on Android 13+
1.6.6:
- Fix and re-enable daily reminder feature
- Fix storage permission issues on newer Android devices
- Add Black theme
- Add resources menu linking to how to meditate, /r/meditation, an overview of MediNET and replaying the tutorial
- Add presets to tutorial
- Add session volume preview
- Add custom vibration patterns
- Add timer position setting
- Resolve possible crash when waking device
- Resolve duration not being preselected when editing
- Remove usage of Google Play Services (was previously used in releases on Google Play and Amazon)
1.5.8:
- Resolve minor sound delay by preloading sounds
- Increase session message maximum length from 160 to 4096
1.5.7:
- Added preset widgets
- Removed "Set to silent" notification control setting (use "Alarms only" instead)
- Resolve sound/vibration delays on some devices
- Sessions may now be imported from previous exports (CSV files)
- Advertisements have been removed
- Fixed add session dialog sometimes overwriting existing session when adding a new session
- Fixed skipping session delay causing start sound to be played twice
- Recorded sessions may now be edited
- Improved calculation of meditation streak window (streak buffer was not being applied consistently)
- Added: Long press shortcut to calendar buttons moving one year backward/forward
- Possibly fixed: Issues with sounds not reliably playing on Android 8.0+ (related to OS battery optimization)
- Removed: Daily reminder on Android 8.0+ (this behavior is no longer possible without the application constantly running)
- Fix interval sounds not reliably playing
- Fix timer not displaying when returning to the app while paused
1.5.2:
- Potentially fix sounds not reliably playing
- Add 'Streak resets at' preference
1.5.1:
- Fix crash when upgrading full screen preference
1.5.0:
- Fix setting device to vibrate/silent on Android 6.0+
- Split full screen preference into three options: disabled, during session and always
- Obey volume preference when playing sounds in the Settings screen
- Remove 'Turn screen off' option as it requires device administrator privileges
- Fix crash when starting session on Android 8.0+
1.4.6/1.4.7:- Add session export feature to Progress window1.4.5:- Fix app crash when signing in to MediNET- Fix widget service crash1.4.4:- Add feature to send debug log via email
1.4.5:- Fix app crash when signing in to MediNET1.4.4:- Add feature to send debug log via email1.4.3:- Potentially resolve a bug affecting some users where their browser is opened to sign in each time the app is opened
1.4.4:- Add feature to send debug log via email1.4.3:- Potentially resolve a bug affecting some users where their browser is opened to sign in each time the app is opened1.4.2:- Updated notification icon to match app icon- Fixed data/battery drain introduced in 1.4.1 for some users
1.4.3:- Potentially resolve a bug affecting some users where their browser is opened to sign in each time the app is opened1.4.2:- Updated notification icon to match app icon- Fixed data/battery drain introduced in 1.4.1 for some users1.4.1:- Updated app icon (thanks Symbolisch)- Changed MediNET Oauth method from Play Services to open-source library AppAuth- Fix set to vibrate/silent feature on pre-Android 6.0 devices- App now requires Android 4.1+ (was 4.0+)
1.4.1:- Updated app icon (thanks Symbolisch)- Changed MediNET Oauth method from Play Services to open-source library AppAuth- Fix set to vibrate/silent feature on pre-Android 6.0 devices- App now requires Android 4.1+ (was 4.0+)
1.4.0:- Fix alarm icon appearing in the status bar when Daily Reminder is enabled- Increase fidelity of the default gong sound1.3.9:- Fix inexact session duration due to battery saving measures introduced in Android 6.01.3.7:- Add "Priority only" and "Alarms only" to the "Ringtone and notifications" setting (Android 6.0+ only)- Fix crash on Android 7.01.3.5:- Updated libraries1.3.4:- Fix incomplete MediNET upload bug- Fix sessions displaying as the wrong date on the calendar
