APODroid

about

description

APODroid sets NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) as your wallpaper. A new picture comes out every day, and the app picks it up on its own. You can add NASA's Image of the Day and the Earth Observatory's Image of the Day. The app is one page: today's picture with its title and date. With more than one source, a tab per source sits above the picture. On tablets and in landscape the settings sit beside it. Pull down to refresh. Tap the picture to open it on NASA's website, or tap the star to save it to your gallery. Tap the frame button to choose which part of the picture becomes the wallpaper. The astronomer's explanation starts under the title; tap it to read it all. <b>Settings:</b> <ul> <li><b>Change wallpaper automatically:</b> checks for the new picture a few times a day, only when there is a network.</li> <li><b>Pictures from:</b> pick the sources you want. With two or more they take turns: change every day, 12, 6 or 3 hours. NASA and Earth Observatory post on weekdays only.</li> <li><b>Where:</b> home screen, lock screen, or both.</li> <li><b>If APOD is a video:</b> some days it is. Keep the previous wallpaper, use NASA's or Earth Observatory's picture, or a picture of your own. The page shows a ▶ tile that opens the video on NASA's website.</li> <li><b>Set as wallpaper now:</b> sets the picture shown. With two or more sources, its turn starts.</li> </ul> If Android would pause the app because you don't open it, a note below the picture names the settings in App info that prevent it. Notes also tell you when the check fails. <b>Privacy:</b> no account, no ads, no tracking. The app talks only to NASA's websites (nasa.gov). Permissions: internet access, setting the wallpaper, network state and starting after a reboot (both for the daily update). Saving to the gallery needs no permission. APODroid is not made by or affiliated with NASA.

publisher

78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d

first seen

2026-10-09T07:35:42.882851+00:00

last event

2026-10-18 16:25 UTC

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

source & build

repository

https://github.com/buerlino/apodroid

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a android-armeabi-v7a android-x86 android-x86_64

manifest

missing

releases (kind 30063)

3 releases indexed; latest 0.5.0.

version	channel	released	event
0.5.0	main	2026-10-18 16:25 UTC	ac7b2edb…
0.4.0	main	2026-10-16 16:58 UTC	ab32df18…
0.3.1	main	2026-10-07 19:27 UTC	7b22e575…

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

0.5.0 — apodroid-v0.5.0.apk

sha256

3b57800dfe6c8a942ff54d9a68ff2916490fd3215d7e99b76e42b01e103b4578

size

1.9 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

9

apk cert sha256

b7dd5ace7b317f91cd347d147b88205dd9a52d1c1e36a40c5996d670b00dc538

download

apodroid-v0.5.0.apk

0.4.0 — apodroid-v0.4.0.apk

sha256

e2af0cd4b17ee76ea624a271430a5f759a1c735ba8046220b1cd6d570738c04a

size

1.8 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

8

apk cert sha256

b7dd5ace7b317f91cd347d147b88205dd9a52d1c1e36a40c5996d670b00dc538

download

apodroid-v0.4.0.apk

0.3.1 — apodroid-v0.3.1.apk

sha256

6292d5df6fc2e22ef4c378e87b11cea4d13c55f46b3ff3f752723639577d5288

size

1.8 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a, android-x86, android-x86_64

version code

7

apk cert sha256

b7dd5ace7b317f91cd347d147b88205dd9a52d1c1e36a40c5996d670b00dc538

download

apodroid-v0.3.1.apk

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