Accrescent 0.28.0

This release adds a "cancel" button for downloads, provides better update scheduling (especially on Android 14+), and includes a handful of UI improvements and bug fixes.
Changed
Perform gentle updates when possible (
5ad75f1
,
#287
)
Auto update apps only when they won't be re-enabled (
a8e4e85
)
Switch icons from Material Icons to Material Symbols (
49785eb
)
Increase default auto update interval to 8 hours (
c160d3e
)
Change app license to Apache License Version 2.0 (
aea093a
)
Added
Add button for cancelling in-progress app downloads (
c5c6a19
,
#475
)
Display error in app details when app is incompatible (
7cb79f6
,
#754
)
Fixed
Fix "Open" button appearing for Accrescent (
c742f1a
)
Fix UI glitch when pressing back from settings (
f9f85e2
,
#236
)
Fix app updates appearing as perpetually pending (
54c8c60
,
#751
)
Updated
Bump app store API to 1.0.3 (
1dc616e
)
Bump Gradle to 9.2.0 (
6ba6d62
)
Bump OkHttp to 5.3.0 (
44ef5e7
)
Update Bulgarian translation (109247019824)
Update Chinese (Simplified Han script) translation (大王叫我来巡山)
Update Czech translation
@Fjuro
)
Update Dutch translation
@Stephan-P
)
Update Estonian translation (Priit Jõerüüt)
Update French translation (
@luneth
, Tristan B)
Update Galician translation (josé m)
Update German translation (
@Atalanttore
)
Update Hungarian translation (Ghost of Sparta)
Update Korean translation (
@on9686
)
Update Lithuanian translation (
@rimas-kudelis
)
Update Norwegian Nynorsk translation (Øystein Alværvik)
Update Polish translation (
@ILikeYourHat
)
Update Turkish translation (birbsophone)
Update Turkish (Ottoman) translation
@bgo-eiu
)
Update Ukrainian translation (
@maksim2005UKR
)
Update Vietnamese translation (
@fossicefairy
)

Accrescent

A novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.

Currently in early alpha.

Screenshots

Home Page

App Details

Settings Menu

Material You

About

Accrescent is a private and secure Android app store built with modern features in mind. It aims to provide a developer-friendly platform and pleasant user experience while enforcing modern security and privacy practices and offering robust validity guarantees for installed apps. It does this through the following features:

App signing key pinning

Signed repository metadata

Automatic, unprivileged, unattended updates (Android 12+)

First-class support for split APKs

No remote APK signing

Meaningful quality control for submitted apps

No account requirement for installing apps

...and more. See the

features page

on the website for details.

Accrescent currently runs on Android 10 and up.

Contributions are welcome! If you're interested in helping out, be sure to check out the

contributing guidelines

for tips on getting started.

Signing certificate hash

Accrescent's SHA-256 signing certificate hash is as follows:

067a40c4193aad51ac87f9ddfdebb15e24a1850babfa4821c28c5c25c3fdc071

Be sure to check it against the hashes on

our website

and

Twitter

to verify its legitimacy.

Translations

Accrescent has a project on

Hosted Weblate

if you would like to help translate.

Sponsors

Thank you to our sponsors for supporting us! Accrescent wouldn't be possible without you. Accrescent is sponsored by:

🥇 Astra

🥇 Isai Garcia

Trademark

The name "Accrescent" and the Accrescent logo are common law trademarks owned by the Accrescent project. All other parties are forbidden from using Accrescent's name and branding, as are derivatives of Accrescent. Derivatives include, but are not limited to forks and unofficial builds.