Android app for Pratima: a personal shrine on your phone's home screen
Pratima is a mobile app startup blending technology with the rich tapestry of Hindu rituals. Perpetio designed and built its first Android MVP: home screen shrine widgets, a holiday calendar and insights about every symbol.
Developed with utmost respect for Hindu traditions, Pratima preserves the sanctity of ancient practices while enhancing users’ spiritual journey. Perpetio built the first Android MVP: a centralized app hub with a holiday calendar and shrine widgets for the home screen.
Pratima
Pratima is a mobile app startup blending technology with the rich tapestry of Hindu rituals, so users can immerse themselves in the sacred traditions and elevate their spiritual experience in the digital age.
The challenge: home screen shrines, made right for their audience
Pratima's team asked for an Android app that supports widget functionality to reflect shrines on the home screen, with a holiday calendar and other information in the app. As the app was to cater to Hinduism followers in India, the visuals had to match the audience’s preferences.
Home screen widgets that reflect shrines
A holiday calendar and other information in the app
Appropriate colors, images and wordings for the audience
User-friendly widgets that display images correctly
A thorough exploration of Android widget development practices
The solution: a culturally resonant app hub
Traditional visuals
Traditional Hinduism visuals and colors like gold and pink, infused into the app's design.
Home screen widgets
A diverse selection of shrine designs for users to place directly on their home screens.
Holiday calendar
Special occasions in a calendar view, with each day’s holidays on the home screen.
Sun and moon timings
Times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset, to align celebrations with auspicious timings.
Reminders
A reminder one day before a holiday.
Symbol insights
Succinct details about each calendar event and sacred symbol, its significance and rituals.
Calendar insights
Plan celebrations with precision
Users check the special occasions in advance and align their celebrations with the auspicious timings of the sun and moon.
Each day’s holidays on the home screen
A detailed page for every holiday
A reminder one day before
4timings on the home screen: sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset
Shrine design collection
A personal collection of sacred symbols
Users curate their personal collection of sacred symbols, each imbued with auspicious energy, and place them on the home screen.
Images divided into categories
Personalized recommendations
Placed on the home screen with a single tap
Dailya new image every day
How the Pratima app works
Calendar insights
Every special occasion, in advance
With an in-app calendar view, users can check the special occasions in advance. The app’s home screen displays each day’s holidays. Every holiday is described in detail on a separate page, allowing users to learn more about it and set a reminder for one day before the holiday.
1See today’s holidays on the home screen
2Open a holiday to learn more about it
3Set a reminder for one day before
Shrine design collection
Find a widget image you love
Users can curate their personal collection of sacred symbols. The app offers a new image every day. Finding a preferred widget image is easy as they are divided into categories, and users get personalized recommendations based on their selected symbols.
1Browse images by category
2Get personalized recommendations
3Place a shrine on the home screen with one tap
Comprehensive information
The meaning behind every image
The Pratima app features succinct and comprehensive details about each calendar event and sacred symbol, providing quick insights into their significance and rituals. Users can discover the profound meanings behind each image.
1Open a symbol or an event
2Read about its significance
3Learn the rituals behind it
Results: the first Android MVP, blending tradition with digital convenience
released for Android
MVP
tap to place a shrine on the home screen
1
a new sacred image
Daily
months of design and development
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Users can now access a comprehensive calendar, choose from a variety of shrine designs, and easily place them on their home screens with a single tap. Additionally, the app provides insightful information about each calendar event and symbol, enhancing users' spiritual journey.
Tech stack behind the Pratima app
A native Android app in Kotlin with home screen widgets, and a NestJS backend and admin panel in TypeScript.
Languages
Kotlin, TypeScript
Platform
Android
Team
4 people
Client location
The Philippines
Android app
MVVM, Kotlin
Retrofit 2
Gson
Coroutines
Hilt
View Binding
Alarm Manager
Jetpack Navigation
ViewModel / LiveData
Android Widgets
Backend & admin
NestJS, TypeScript, SOLID
@nestjs/jwt
@nestjs/swagger
@nestjs/mongoose
agenda
bcrypt
class-validator
fluent-ffmpeg
moment-timezone
rxjs
heic-convert
Analytics & stability
Measure and monitor
Firebase
Android services
Background work
Multithreading
Push notifications
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