I made an Android app that gives you live synced lyrics over almost any music app 🎵

It’s called Auralis.

I wanted something that could show lyrics without constantly switching between my music player, browser, and some lyrics app, so I built a floating lyrics overlay instead.

Auralis detects the song currently playing and shows time-synced lyrics directly over your music app. You can keep it as a small floating pill, expand it into a larger bar, or open a full-screen karaoke-style view.

Some of the features:

• 🎶 Live line-by-line synced lyrics
• 🫧 Floating overlay that works over other apps
• 🎨 Material You / wallpaper-based colors
• 💿 Album-art-based dynamic colors
• ⚙️ Custom background, text, accent, size and corner radius
• ⏱️ Manual sync adjustment with per-song timing memory
• 🎛️ Play / pause / previous / next controls
• 📄 Import your own .lrc or .txt lyrics
• 🚫 No ads
• 👤 No account required

The latest update also added an album-art mode where the overlay automatically changes its colors based on the current song's cover art.

Auralis is still pretty new, so I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, bug reports, or ideas for features you'd like to see.

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vythera.auralis

Would love to know what you guys think :)

Hey everyone! 👋

I’ve just released Stride v1.0.4 — Elevate, a major update to my open-source Android step tracker.

The main goal with this release was to make step tracking more reliable while giving users more control over where their data comes from.

🚶 Choose where your steps come from

You can now choose between:

• Automatic — Stride intelligently selects the appropriate source
• This phone — use your phone’s built-in pedometer
• Health Connect — use data from your smartwatch, fitness band, ring, or other health apps

Changing the source also triggers an immediate data resync.

❤️ Health Connect write-back

Stride can optionally write your health data back to Health Connect:

• Steps
• Distance
• Active calories

It also handles daily records properly to avoid creating duplicate data.

📱 New home-screen widgets

The open-source version now includes 4 widget layouts, including:

• Compact step counter
• Steps + distance + calories
• Goal progress ring
• 7-day activity chart

🛠️ Lots of tracking fixes

This release also fixes several issues around:

• Step totals unexpectedly decreasing
• Duplicate/inflated totals from multiple sources
• Tracking across device reboots
• Midnight/day transitions
• Active calorie calculations
• Health Connect synchronization edge cases

🔒 Privacy first

Stride doesn't require an account or subscription, and your movement data isn't sold.

Health Connect is completely optional — you can simply use your phone's pedometer if that's all you need.

Android 8.0+

🔗 Release: https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride/releases/tag/v1.0.4

If you try it out, I'd love to hear your feedback — especially if you notice anything that could make step tracking better. ❤️

⭐ GitHub stars, bug reports, feature requests, and contributions are always welcome!

Vyxel Apps searches 14 app sources at once and installs from whichever one has the

app. It's been F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Flathub and WinGet;

this release doubles that and opens the source properly.

**What's new**

- **Google Play apps.** Aurora OSS and Aptoide are in, so the half of your phone that

didn't come from an open-source repo is now searchable and installable too.

- **Update checks for Play apps.** APKPure handles those, and only offers an update

when the candidate's signing certificate matches what's already installed — so a

repackaged build under a real package name gets dropped rather than offered.

- **Root modules.** A new Modules screen covering Magisk, Zygisk, LSPosed and

KernelSU — about 1,280 modules from four repositories, with family labels.

- **A GitHub quota meter.** Anonymous GitHub gives you 60 API requests an *hour*, and

browsing burns them faster than you'd think. Settings now shows what's left, read

from GitHub's own rate-limit headers. A token raises it to 5,000.

- **Your access token is readable again.** It used to be write-only, so moving to a

second device meant revoking the token and minting a new one. Now you can reveal

and copy it.

- **Hide an app from every source at once**, matched on package name — hiding one

copy isn't much use when four indexes carry the same app.

**Fixes worth calling out**

- Apps with published APKs sometimes showed none. The release lookup was reporting

"No releases found" for what was actually an exhausted rate limit — a statement

about the request dressed up as a statement about the app. Each cause now names

itself, and the rate-limit case tells you how long to wait.

- No more false downgrade offers. Apps that ship a build per ABI encode the ABI in

the version code's high digits, so an older arm64 build carries a bigger number

than a newer armv7 one.

- Installed apps are badged with the source they actually came from.

- Sources no longer sit on "Waiting to sync" forever (a lost-update race), and a

second download no longer freezes the first one's progress bar.

Free, no ads, no tracking. AGPL-3.0. Requires Android 8.0+.

Download and open-core source: https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases/latest

Made Stride, a step counter that doesn't ask for a login, doesn't have ads, and doesn't send your step data anywhere — it just counts and gets out of the way. Free edition's fully open-source on GitHub, no catches.

Giving away a few promo codes for the Pro edition (adds GPS walk tracking with maps, deeper insights, and a home-screen widget) — upvote and comment what feature would actually get you using a step counter for a chance to win one!

Cheers!

Download the app at - https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride/releases/tag/v1.0.3

I build **Stride**, a native Android step counter. Someone sent me a mockup of a wellness-app look they liked and asked if I could theme the app that way. I said yes, thinking it was a palette swap. It was not. **The problem with "just recolour it":** the mockup's whole identity was a warm off-white ground with a *dark panel that curves into* a light stat card — an inward S, the two shapes interlocking. Drop that palette onto stock Material cards and you get olive-tinted rectangles. It reads as nothing.

**The shape took five goes.** My first attempt curved the wrong way (outward, like a C). Then it was an S but visibly two arcs stitched together. Then the bulge started too high. What finally worked:

- I stopped eyeballing it and **traced the reference image pixel by pixel** with a script, which gave me real numbers: corner radius ≈62dp, sway ≈12–17dp, and — the thing I'd got wrong all along — the two panels *overlap*, the light card's right edge sits under the dark panel's left edge.

- The curve is a **Catmull-Rom spline through waypoints, converted to Béziers**, with the corner arcs folded into the same spline so there are no seams. - Crucially **centripetal** parametrisation (α=0.5), not uniform. With unevenly spaced control points, uniform Catmull-Rom overshoots and you get a little hook at the waist. That was the "still not smooth" bug.

**Then the rest of the app had to follow.** A redesigned home screen next to four stock screens looks worse than no redesign at all. So:

- **Today** — progress ring replaced with a goal curve; every stat tile carries a sparkline of its own last 7 days.

- **History** — I'd built it as a copy of the home screen, which was pointless. Rebuilt around the question the screen actually exists for: *how does this week compare to last week?* Period total, ±% chip, bars inside that same card, explicit side-by-side underneath.

- **Awards** — deliberately built on **rings** rather than bars, because with bars it just read as History again.

- **Settings** — section headers demoted to quiet eyebrows, and the theme picker became **preview tiles that render each skin's real corner treatment**, so you choose a look by looking at it rather than reading its name.

The whole thing runs off a composition-local "skin" token, so screens ask for shapes instead of hard-coding radii. **Classic and Retro are completely untouched** — this is a third option, not a replacement.

Also in this release: Stride can now **write** to Health Connect, not just read, so your steps show up in your other health apps. Off by default.

The app: on-device hardware pedometer, no account, data stays on your phone,

Health Connect optional, live step notification, widget, goals, streaks. Core is open source under GPLv3.

Happy to talk about the spline maths or the History rethink — those were the two that took real work.

Download:- https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride/releases/download/v1.0.3/Stride-v1.0.3-gumroad.apk

Github:- https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride/releases/tag/v1.0.3

Consider leaving an upvote if you like it.

Finding root modules is still a scavenger hunt. The Alt Repo has some. Googlers Repo has others. LSPosed keeps its own index. Everything published in the last two years is a GitHub topic nobody curates.

And once you've installed a dozen of them, **nothing tells you when they update**. Magisk checks its own modules — not the one you grabbed off a forum thread eight months ago.

So I built **Modex**. It does both halves: scrapes every source into one catalog, then watches the ones you keep.

**What it does**

- **One catalog, six sources** — Magisk Modules Alt Repo, Googlers Repo, the official LSPosed index, GitHub topic crawlers for `magisk-module` / `zygisk-module` / `lsposed-module` / `kernelsu`, plus any MMRL-format `modules.json` URL you paste in. Search runs over the whole thing offline.

- **Update watching** — star a module and Modex checks it daily, weekly or monthly in the background. It uses the author's own `updateJson` where one exists — the same endpoint Magisk polls — and falls back to the repo index when there isn't one.

- **Installs from inside the app** — with root granted it detects whether Magisk, KernelSU or APatch owns `/data/adb/modules` and shells out to that manager's own installer, streaming its actual stdout into a console sheet. You see why something failed instead of a spinner and a shrug.

- **Root is optional.** Without it you get the catalog and a watchlist that compares against the version a module was at when you starred it. With it, it compares against what you actually have installed.

- **Two themes**, switchable in Settings: *Liquid Glass* (editorial layout on a wallpaper, with a floating nav bar and search field that genuinely sample and blur what's behind them) or *Material 3 Expressive* (cards, filled badges, springs, and your wallpaper's own palette via Material You).

**Some honest caveats**

- The GitHub crawl fills in over several syncs, not all at once — GitHub caps any search at 1000 results and allows ten searches a minute, so Modex partitions queries into star-count bands and resumes where it stopped. The count on the home screen goes up over the first few refreshes. Adding a personal access token in Settings roughly triples the pace.

- Sources are scraped independently. When a community repo goes down or changes its schema — and one usually has — that costs exactly that repo. Everything else still lands and the Sources screen tells you which one broke.

- **Modules run as root.** Modex indexes what the ecosystem publishes, including thousands of repositories nobody has reviewed. It marks which entries came from a curated repo, but it cannot vouch for any of them. Install things you have reason to trust.

**Practical bits**

- Android 8.0+, no account, no ads, no analytics, no location. Your watchlist and settings never leave the device.

- Free. There's a "buy me a coffee" link in the app if it saves you time, but nothing is gated.

- No Play listing — sideload the APK.

**Download:** https://github.com/NikhilKain/Modex/releases/latest

**Source:** https://github.com/NikhilKain/Modex

Happy to answer anything, and genuinely interested in which sources you'd want added — if there's a repo you check by hand that Modex doesn't cover, tell me and I'll look at supporting its format.

Hey everyone! 👋

I’ve just released Vyxel Apps v1.0.9 (Keystone), and this update is a pretty big one.

Vyxel Apps is an open-source Android app store/discovery app that brings apps from multiple open-source sources into one place.

🤖 AI-powered search

The biggest change in this release is search.

Instead of relying purely on keyword matching, Vyxel now tries to understand what you're looking for.

For example:

• quit smoking → finds relevant addiction/habit apps
• firefx → finds Firefox
• newpip → finds NewPipe
• Half-remembered app names and missing words work better too

Search results also appear as you type, with no search data leaving your device.

The search index can also improve continuously without requiring an app update.

🏠 More like a store, less like a directory

The home screen has been redesigned around actual app discovery.

There are now six new categories:

• Privacy & Security
• Media & Players
• Reading & Writing
• Internet & Messaging
• Getting Things Done
• Games

There's also a Newly Launched section for genuinely new apps rather than apps that simply received an update.

Apps are deduplicated across sections, so you don't keep seeing the same handful of apps everywhere.

📦 26% smaller

The APK went from 9.0 MB → 6.6 MB.

Smaller download, faster installation, less storage usage.

✨ A bunch of smaller improvements

• Real app icons instead of contributor profile pictures
• Generated tiles for apps that don't have icons
• Cleaner app names and descriptions
• Removed raw package identifiers and stray emoji
• Haptic feedback when installing
• Simplified premium theme pricing information
• All four premium themes are covered by one purchase

🐛 Fixes

IzzyOnDroid reliability has been improved, and a failing source won't prevent the rest of a page from loading.

Error messages should also now make it clearer what went wrong and whether it actually matters.

🔒 Privacy

One thing I particularly wanted to keep with the new search system:

Your searches stay on your device.

No search queries are sent to a server.

📱 Requires Android 8.0+

🔗 GitHub / Release:
https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases/tag/v1.0.9

Would love to hear what you think about the new search and store-style home screen. Feedback and bug reports are very welcome!

Every travel app I've used asks where I want to go and then tells me what it costs. I kept wanting the opposite: I have ₹60,000 and a week in September, so where can I actually go?

So I built Range. You give it a number, a date and who's coming, and it prices the whole trip to 180 destinations and shows you everywhere that fits.

Whole trip, not just the airfare — getting there, sleeping, eating, moving around, doing things, visas, insurance and a buffer, for your group size at your comfort level. Change "comfort" to "budget" and watch the map open up.

A few things I cared about getting right:

- It won't lie about transport. It prices flight/train/bus/taxi/own car and uses the cheapest that genuinely works. There's no train to Dubai, no drive to Bali, and no railway to Kaza, Leh or Gangtok. Mountain roads are timed slower than plains. If it's too short to fly, it says so and substitutes the surface option.

- Everything is modelled on device. No account, no ads, no analytics, no location permission. The only network call is an exchange-rate refresh, and it falls back to bundled rates offline.

- Results are ranked by what's interesting at your budget, not just what's cheapest — the cheapest answer from anywhere is always the dull city two hours away.

There's also a radar view that plots every destination by true bearing and log-scaled distance, with a boundary through the farthest thing you can afford in each direction. Mostly it's just nice to look at.

Honest caveat: the prices are a model, not live fares. Nothing is scraped and no booking API is called — that's why it works offline and needs no account. Treat the totals as a realistic planning range, then check a booking site once you've picked somewhere. I'd rather say that up front than have you find out.

Android 8.0+, 2.8 MB, Material You so it picks up your wallpaper colours.

Download: https://github.com/NikhilKain/Range/releases/latest

Happy to answer anything about the pricing model — it's the part I spent the longest on.

I build **Stride**, a native Android step counter. A user asked for a retro theme, and

instead of just swapping the colours I ended up redesigning the whole UI as a proper

8-bit skin. It was way more fun than it should have been, so I wanted to share.

**What "retro" actually meant, technically:**

- **Real stepped corners.** A small corner radius still looks like Material. On an actual

8-bit display a "rounded" corner is just square pixels knocked off at 45°, so I wrote a

custom `CornerBasedShape` that draws the staircase. That one change does most of the

heavy lifting.

- **Pixel typeface** (Press Start 2P, OFL). It has a tall intrinsic ascent, so my first

build had text overlapping itself — every tier needed ~2× leading and centred

line-height alignment before it looked right.

- **Block progress ring** instead of the smooth indicator, with a radar sweep that

brightens each cell as it passes.

- **Hard offset shadows** — blur would defeat the entire aesthetic.

- **CRT scanlines** drifting over the whole app, and a blinking terminal caret.

- **The map too** — the walk map is OpenStreetMap tiles run through a duotone colour

matrix so it lands in the same palette, inside a pixel frame.

The whole thing is driven by a composition-local "skin", so screens ask for shapes

instead of hard-coding radii. **The default Material design is completely untouched

behind a toggle**, and none of it changes how the app works — it's purely cosmetic.

**The app itself,** if you're curious: on-device hardware pedometer (no account, your

data stays on your phone), Health Connect optional, live step notification, home-screen

widget, goals, streaks and achievements. Core is open source under GPLv3.

Happy to go into detail on any of the implementation — the stepped-corner shape and the

duotone map filter were the two most interesting bits to figure out.

Link :- https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride/releases/tag/v1.0.2

I built an Android app store that combines GitHub, F-Droid, GitLab, Codeberg & more into one app

I got tired of jumping between different platforms just to discover open-source Android apps.

So I started building Vyxel—an Android app store that brings multiple repositories together in one place.

Features

• 🔍 Search apps across GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, Codeberg, Flathub, and Winget.
• 📦 Install apps from multiple repositories without switching between apps.
• 🎨 Modern Material 3 Expressive UI with Material You support.
• 🌈 Multiple themes, with even more currently in development.
• 🌍 Localization support.
• ⚡ CDN-first architecture for faster loading.
• 🛠️ Support for custom repositories.
• 🔑 Optional Shizuku integration for a smoother installation experience.

The goal isn't to replace existing app stores—it's to make discovering apps from all these sources feel like one seamless experience.

I'm still actively developing Vyxel, so all suggestions are welcome! Whether it's a feature request, UI/UX feedback, performance improvements, bug reports, or even small quality-of-life ideas, I'd love to hear them.

Constructive criticism is just as valuable as praise, and every piece of feedback helps make Vyxel better.

Thanks for checking it out! ❤️

Link:- https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases/tag/v1.0.7

Hey everyone,

I just launched my first app, **Auralis: Live Lyrics**, and wanted to share it here.

It shows **live, time-synced lyrics in a floating overlay** on top of whatever music app you're using. Play a song in almost any player and Auralis detects it, fetches the synced lyrics, and scrolls them line-by-line in a little floating pill you can move anywhere — pull down to expand it into a full card.

**What it does:**

- Live lyrics that stay in sync with the song, highlighted line-by-line

- Floating overlay that works over any music app (Spotify, YT Music, etc.)

- Three styles: compact pill, expanded bar, and a big karaoke-style card

- Fully customizable — background/text/accent colors, size, corner roundness, position

- Per-song sync memory — nudge the timing once and it remembers it for that track

- Bring your own lyrics — import a .lrc or .txt for anything it can't find

- No account, no ads. It only reads the current track's title + artist to look up lyrics; it never reads your personal notifications or sells data.

It's **free** and works on Android 8.0+.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vythera.auralis

I'd genuinely love feedback — feature ideas, bugs, anything. What would make this a daily-use app for you? Happy to answer any questions in the comments.

Hey Everyone,

Every step counter I tried wanted a login, a subscription, or permission

to sell my movement data to whoever asked. So I wrote one that wants none

of that, and open-sourced it.

**Stride** counts your steps and gets out of the way.

**What it does**

* Reads from Health Connect, or falls back to your phone's hardware step

sensor if you don't use it. Works on day one either way.

* Full **Material 3 Expressive** — wavy progress rings, shape-morphing

badges, spring motion. Material You wallpaper colours, AMOLED black,

4 palettes, 6 bundled fonts.

* Weekly bar chart and a monthly calendar heatmap.

* Streaks and 14 achievements.

* Share cards that render your day as an image.

* Backup/restore to a plain JSON file. No cloud in the middle.

* English and Hindi.

* Android 16 Live Updates, where your ROM actually supports it — and the

app tells you honestly when it doesn't, instead of silently failing.

**The privacy bit:** no ads, no account, no analytics, no tracking. The

only network permission is for checking GitHub for updates. That's it.

**Being upfront:** it's open-**core**. The repo is the free edition and

it's a complete app — nothing time-limited or nagged.

📖 Source (GPLv3): https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride

📥 APK: https://github.com/NikhilKain/stride/releases/latest

Android 8.0+. Play Store submission is coming.

Built with Kotlin and Compose. Happy to answer anything about the

implementation — the Health Connect + sensor merge and getting Live

Updates working on Android 16 were both more annoying than expected.

🎁 Giving away 15 Premium Themes for Vyxel!

I built an Android app store that combines GitHub, F-Droid, GitLab, Codeberg & more into one app

As a thank you to the community, I'm giving away 15 Premium Theme licenses for Vyxel.

📅 The giveaway starts on Sunday, 26 July 2026 at 4:00 PM IST.

The giveaway will take place exclusively on our Telegram channel, where I'll post the coupon and all the details.

If you'd like to join, hop into the Telegram community before the giveaway starts

Telegram channel:- @ vyxelapps_announcement

Good luck, and may the fastest fingers win! 🚀

I built an Android app store that combines GitHub, F-Droid, GitLab, Codeberg & more into one app

I got tired of jumping between different platforms just to discover open-source Android apps.

So I started building Vyxel—an Android app store that brings multiple repositories together in one place.

Features

• 🔍 Search apps across GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, Codeberg, Flathub, and Winget.
• 📦 Install apps from multiple repositories without switching between apps.
• 🎨 Modern Material 3 Expressive UI with Material You support.
• 🌈 Multiple themes, with even more currently in development.
• 🌍 Localization support.
• ⚡ CDN-first architecture for faster loading.
• 🛠️ Support for custom repositories.
• 🔑 Optional Shizuku integration for a smoother installation experience.

The goal isn't to replace existing app stores—it's to make discovering apps from all these sources feel like one seamless experience.

I'm still actively developing Vyxel, so all suggestions are welcome! Whether it's a feature request, UI/UX feedback, performance improvements, bug reports, or even small quality-of-life ideas, I'd love to hear them.

Constructive criticism is just as valuable as praise, and every piece of feedback helps make Vyxel better.

Thanks for checking it out! ❤️

Link:- https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases/tag/v1.0.6

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on Vyxel, an open-source Android app store that lets you discover apps from multiple sources like GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, Codeberg, and more.

I finally decided to make a dedicated website for it... well, sort of. 😅

The current version is a test website, so it's definitely not perfect. Before I launch the real thing, I'd love to hear what other people think.

🌐 https://vyxelwebstore.pages.dev/

I'm looking for feedback on things like:

• 🎨 Design & overall look
• 🧭 Navigation & usability
• 📱 Mobile responsiveness
• ⚡ Performance
• 🐛 Bugs or broken pages
• 💡 Features you'd like to see

Don't hold back—if something looks weird, feels clunky, or makes you question my life choices, let me know. 😂

Thanks for taking the time to check it out! Every suggestion helps make the final version better.

Hey everyone,

I’m the developer of **Vyxel Apps**—the open-source Android client built for tracking, managing, and installing FOSS apps directly from GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, and Codeberg pipelines.

Yesterday's update completely blew up, hitting 3K+ downloads in 24 hours and pushing our total across all versions past the **34K mark**!

To celebrate this milestone, I’m giving away **15 Pro Keys** for the **Liquid Glass Theme** framework.

### 📅 Giveaway Details:

* **When:** Tomorrow, June 14, 2026, at exactly **4:00 PM IST**.

* **How to claim:** I will be dropping the raw keys directly in our Telegram channel. It’s a straight copy-and-paste claim, first-come, first-served.

Make sure to join the channel ahead of time so you don't miss it when the clock strikes 4!

👉 **Check out the Project on GitHub:** https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps

Thanks for all the support and feedback on the new update! See you tomorrow. 🥳

P.s. Telegram Channel Link in comments

Hey everyone!

I've just released Vyxel Apps v1.0.4, one of the biggest updates to the project so far.

This release heavily focuses on improving the Liquid Glass experience while also bringing new customization options, better localization, improved update detection, and numerous bug fixes.

What's New?

💎 Major Liquid Glass overhaul

🖼️ Custom wallpapers for Liquid Glass

🌫️ Adjustable blur effects

🔮 Adjustable refraction effects

✨ Adjustable edge effects

⚡ Significant performance improvements and lag fixes

📱 New Liquid Glass preview experience

🔧 Added Shizuku support

📦 Added manual repository entry for custom repositories

🌍 More language support, including Chinese

🖼️ Fixed screenshots not loading

🎨 Fixed app icons not loading

🔄 Fixed update tracking and installed-app update detection

⭐ Fixed favorites list only showing 5 items

🎨 Various UI refinements and polish throughout the app

A lot of work also went into stability improvements and under-the-hood fixes to make the overall experience smoother and more reliable.

Release:
https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases/tag/v1.0.4

Feedback, feature requests, and bug reports are always appreciated. Thanks to everyone who has been testing and supporting the project!

I built an Android app because I was tired of manually searching GitHub for open-source apps

A few months ago I realized that most of the apps I use come from GitHub, GitLab, and F-Droid rather than the Play Store.

The problem was that discovering them was messy.

I'd find an app on Reddit or GitHub, open the repository, scroll through releases, figure out which APK matched my device, check whether it was actively maintained, and repeat the whole process again when updates were available.

So I decided to build my own solution.

The result is Vyxel Apps, an open-source Android app that helps discover, install, and manage apps from GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, and custom repositories in one place.

Features

• Discover apps from multiple open-source sources

• Custom repository support (new in v1.0.3)

• Advanced search and filtering

• Background update monitoring

• Repository trust scoring

• Easier app downloads and installation flow

• In-app translation support

• Material 3 Expressive UI

• Optional LiquidGlass premium theme

• AMOLED and customizable themes

What's New in v1.0.3

🚀 Faster reloads and performance improvements

🎨 Major UI refinements across the app

🌍 Expanded language support and in-app translation

⚙️ Custom repository support

🔍 Better search, filters, and categories

📖 New About section with project information

⬇️ Improved download and installation experience

The project is completely open source, and I'd love to hear feedback, suggestions, or feature requests.

Release: https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases

🚀 Vyxel Apps v1.0.3 — Major UI & Performance Update

After weeks of development, a huge update for Vyxel Apps is now available!

Vyxel Apps is a free and open-source Android app store that helps you discover and install apps directly from GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid, and other sources. Previous community feedback requested better search, more sources, improved UI, and customization — many of those suggestions have now been implemented. (Reddit)

✨ What's New

🎨 LiquidGlass Theme (Premium)

• Brand-new frosted glass design
• Light & Dark variants
• Smooth blur effects and modern visuals
• Available as a one-time in-app purchase ($3)

🎭 Material 3 Expressive Redesign

• Cleaner layouts
• Better typography
• More consistent spacing
• Smoother navigation

🌍 Improved Language Support

• More language coverage
• In-app translation for app descriptions
• Better accessibility for global users

🎨 Expanded Customization

• Additional themes
• More fonts
• Greater control over app appearance

🔍 Advanced Search & Filters

• Faster discovery
• Better category browsing
• Improved filtering system

⚙️ Custom Repository Support

• Add your own repositories
• Connect self-hosted sources
• Expand beyond default catalogs

⚡ Performance Improvements

• Faster startup times
• Quicker reloads
• Improved caching
• Smoother scrolling and animations

📖 New About Section

• Version history
• Contributor information
• Documentation links

⬇️ Improved Downloads

• Cleaner installation flow
• Better progress indicators
• Fewer interruptions during installs

Still Included

✅ No ads
✅ No tracking
✅ Open source
✅ AMOLED themes
✅ GitHub, GitLab & F-Droid support
✅ Repository trust scoring
✅ Background update monitoring

Download the latest release and share your feedback!

Release: Vyxel Apps Releases

❤️ Every suggestion helps shape future updates.

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a huge update for Vyxel Apps, the open-source Android app store powered by GitHub releases.

This update focuses heavily on UI polish, customization, performance, and app discovery.

What’s new in this update:

• Material 3 Expressive redesign
• Faster backend/server response
• Smoother animations & scrolling
• Advanced filters and category search
• Expanded theme engine & AMOLED themes
• More fonts support
• Multi-language support improvements
• In-app translation for app descriptions
• Better GitHub, GitLab & F-Droid browsing

The goal is to make Vyxel Apps feel modern, fluid, and highly customizable while staying lightweight and privacy-friendly.

Still:
✅ No ads
✅ No tracking
✅ Fully open source

Would love feedback and suggestions ❤️

Link:- https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/