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ZenZoo: Give life to your mobile

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Zen Zoo is a context-aware widget that transforms your device into a living, breathing digital habitat. It’s not just a virtual pet; it’s a reflection of your digital life, designed to make you smile, focus, and feel better through emotional gamif…

Zen Zoo is a context-aware widget that transforms your device into a living, breathing digital habitat. It’s not just a virtual pet; it’s a reflection of your digital life, designed to make you smile, focus, and feel better through emotional gamification and a stunning Nothing OS dot-matrix aesthetic. Built especially to work on nothing devices as an essential apps

This project uses AI

Used AI for readme and mundane works BUT NEVER VIBE CODED

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I built Zen Zoo, a context-aware ‘System Soul’ digital pet that cures doom-scrolling by reacting to your live battery, weather, and habits! The hardest part was animating a 1,000+ node dot-matrix grid smoothly in React Native, but I figured it out by building a custom zero-asset 2D math engine and aggressively tying the render loop to app lifecycle states to hit 0% background drain. Really happy with how it perfectly nailed the Nothing OS aesthetic! :)

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Made the Demo UI better and fixed bugs with the permissions extensions
location (for weather) , battery based aniamtions

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Zen Zoo, a dot-matrix “System Soul” widget! Living pets replace boring notifications, reacting to your battery, weather, and calendar.
IN SIMPLE WORDS , It is a duolingo for digital wellbeing
The challenge was Coding a custom 2D graphics engine in React Native to smoothly animate a 1,000+ node grid.
Main goal was to kill doom-scrolling with empathy, inspired by the duolingo.