Glyph Zen (App Demo / Concept)

Bleelblep

🌬️ Introducing Glyph Zen: Guided Breathing with Nothing Phone Glyphs 🌬️

Hey everyone!

I wanted to share something I’ve been quietly working on: Glyph Zen—a personal project that started as a challenge to see if I could program an Android app.

What is Glyph Zen?

Glyph Zen uses the Glyph Interface on Nothing Phone 1 & 2 to guide you through breathing exercises. Here’s how it works:

2 Breathing Techniques:

🟦 Box Breathing

🟪 4-7-8 Breathing

How it works:

Start a session, turn your phone over, and follow the Glyphs:

Steady brightness: Hold your breath
Increasing brightness: Inhale
Decreasing brightness: Exhale

A countdown gives you time to turn your phone over.

A gear animation gives you a subtle hint at cycle changes with a cycle counter below.

Features So Far

Nothing Phone 1 & 2 support (NP1 needs some tweaks for Glyphs)
Font switching: NType & NDot
Custom light/dark modes and 4 unique themes (resettable to default)
Developer settings page (mostly placeholders for now)
LED calibration testing (NP2 only at the moment)
Logging: Toggle logging, save/send logs (off by default)
Modal pop-up dialogs: Only interactable via buttons, disables background touch
Custom morphing toggle buttons throughout the UI
Cancel button: Instantly stops the Glyph animation

What’s Next?

There’s still a bit to polish and add, but I’m incredibly proud of how far it’s come. For now, I’m focused on getting it running perfectly on both NP1 and NP2.

No public release or source code planned (despite what the settings card says)—just wanted to share the journey and maybe get some feedback from the community!

It all started as a challenge to myself—could I build an Android app that actually integrates with the Nothing Phone’s Glyphs? I’d never done anything like this before, and honestly, I wasn’t sure I could pull it off.

But once I got the basics working, I got obsessed with making it look and feel great. The first version technically worked, but I wasn’t happy with the UI at all. So I dove back in and rewrote the whole thing using Jetpack Compose.

romano

Bleelblep love the design, and i realy like the idea of the app

flo_rahil

Bleelblep

This is a great use for the glyphs. I think it would be a better visualization for people if you included a video of the glyphs working to demonstrate this.

vovan-v

Great design, any chance that it will come to phone 2a rtoo?

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As vovan-v said, maybe it could come to phone 3a / 3a pro?

Bleelblep

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vovan-v

Hi there,

Glyph Zen is fully supported on Nothing Phone (1) and Phone (2), as these are the devices I own and test on.

Universal support for other Nothing devices might already be active, but I can’t confirm compatibility for models I haven’t personally tested.

If or when I decide to release the app, I’ll send the APK to a few 2a and 3a/3a Pro users for testing first.

Err_404NotFound

Bleelblep Ok thanks for letting me know. 👍

Vinaygadu

good idea but the ui design is so clean and fresh to give the zen vibes ❤️
by the way i could help in performing any ui or api tests over it🙃

Bleelblep

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a progress update on Glyph Zen and some of the technical details behind the glyph animations.

On Nothing Phone (1), the D1 channel (or zone) is now used as the main indicator for breathing in and out. The animation progresses from one segment to all segments, visually guiding your breath.

For Nothing Phone (2), I’ve implemented the same concept using the C1 channel.

For the upcoming 2a and 3a/3a Pro models, I plan to use the C1 channels as well to keep the experience consistent.

The rest of the glyphs on each device follow along by adjusting their brightness levels in sync with your breathing. This creates a smooth and intuitive visual guide for each phase of the breathing cycle.

The glyph logic for NP1 and NP2 is now complete. Unfortunately, I recently dropped my NP1 and part of the glyphs broke, but development is still moving forward! My next goal is to implement the same glyph logic for the 2a and 3a models.

Once that’s done, I’m thinking about releasing a test APK. That version would be very simple—it’ll run a single breathing cycle (inhale, hold, exhale, hold) just to test the glyph implementation across different devices.

Bleelblep

flo_rahil It’s a rough video, but hopefully it gets the concept across

The idea is to follow the C1 channel, which acts like a progress bar: as each segment lights up, you inhale. When all segments are fully lit, you hold your breath. As the segments turn off one by one, you exhale, and when the bar is at its dimmest, you hold again.

At the moment, the app is set to guide you through three cycles of this breathing pattern.

Vishwam

Bleelblep Its a nice idea and cool UI. I suggest your to focus and do for all the Nothing phones. An hope you got their GDK API

flo_rahil

Bleelblep Thank you, this is great.

I hope it does get a public release somewhere down the line. It’s really well made and implemented.

Bleelblep

I’m steadily making progress on the app. I’ve now theoretically added support for the 2a and 3a models, though this still needs to be tested.

Rudimentary vibration support is in place, but it definitely needs further refinement. At the moment, I’m focusing on polishing the themes and have also tweaked the animations to make them feel more bouncy and lively

Finally I’ve added some custom drawables to the cards on the home page to better suit the NOTHING aesthetic