Orion Store changelog

Meet Orbit: track any app straight from its source, the way Obtainium does, with one-tap installs and updates built into Orion. Orion also fits every screen now, you can look inside any app before you install it, and forks show where they came from.

🪐 Orbit

• Any App, From Its Source: The new Orbit tab tracks apps Orion's catalog doesn't carry. Paste a GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, Uptodown, APKMirror, APKPure, Aptoide, SourceForge or Jenkins link, a direct APK, XAPK or APKM link, or any web page that offers them. Orion reads the name, icon, description, screenshots and releases.
• Tags: Label an Orbit app, then filter the list by that tag or by where it came from. Search stays in the header.
• One Tap Install and Update: Orbit apps install, update and auto-update like store apps, through root, Shizuku, Dhizuku or wireless debugging, and keep updating in the background.
• Any Version: Every recent release shows in the version picker, so going back to an older build is one tap.
• Fine-Tune: Pick which APK counts with a file name filter, include pre-releases, read the version out of the tag with a pattern, and set the icon and screenshots yourself.
• Discover: The Obtainium apps directory lives inside Orbit. Search hundreds of ready-made configs and add one in a tap.
• Obtainium Import and Export: Bring your Obtainium export, JSON or obtainium:// links over, and export your Orbit in Obtainium's format any time. Add to Obtainium links open in Orion too.
• Share With Everyone: Long-press an Orbit app to share it with the Orion library. It opens a ready submission so anyone can find the app, and it counts as a contribution with XP.
• Pause Updates: Hold any Orbit app on the version it has.

📐 Built for Big Screens

• Edge to Edge: On tablets, foldables and TVs, the app page color, Settings headers and the Know Orion header now run across the whole screen. Text and lists stay in a readable column.
• Two Pane App Pages: On wide screens the app page splits in two: icon, stats, source and app info on one side, and larger screenshots, About, What's new and patches on the other.
• Floating Action Card: The Download, Install and Open buttons now sit in a floating card on big screens instead of a bar that runs from one edge to the other.
• No More Stretching: The search bar, quick toggles, the update strip, the loading placeholder and the Orion AI input keep their proportions on wide screens. Cards on the Dev tab line up in the center.
• Big Screen Navigation: A new setting in Look & feel lets you keep the side rail or move the dock to the bottom or top on tablets, foldables, TVs and wide split screens. Phones always keep the dock at the bottom.
• Split Screen Friendly: Orion no longer locks itself to portrait in split screen or a floating window. This fixes multitasking on devices like Huawei tablets.

🔬 Inspect Any Package

• Inspect Before You Install: Every Android app page now has Inspect right after the platform in the stats row. It shows trackers, permissions, native libraries, frameworks, 16 KB page support, compatibility and the signing certificate.
• Reads What You Have: Orion reads the APK you already downloaded or the copy installed on your phone. Otherwise it fetches the build to its cache, reads it on your phone, then deletes it. Nothing gets installed.
• Findings at a Glance: Once an app has been inspected, the stats row shows its tracker count without opening the sheet again.

🌿 Forks

• Know the Original: When an app's repo is a fork, Source and safety shows a Forked from row with the original project and its stars, one tap away. Works for GitHub, GitLab and Codeberg.

📥 Downloads

• Compact Downloads Sheet: The download queue now opens as a sheet over whatever you are doing, the way the profile card does. It has Install, Update and Cancel on each row, plus Install all or Update all.
• Header Shortcut: While something downloads or waits to install, a progress ring in the header opens the queue in one tap.

📝 App Submissions

• Icon and Screenshots Filled In: Submitting an app from a repo now also finds its icon and screenshots, from F-Droid or fastlane metadata, the launcher icon in the source, or the README. Badges and store buttons are skipped, and anything you set yourself is never replaced.

🐛 Fixes

• Orbit Sources: Uptodown, APKMirror, APKPure, Aptoide, SourceForge, Jenkins and other F-Droid repos now find a real package. APKPure reads the version list, and SourceForge reads files that end in /download. F-Droid reads the file size from the APK when the package list leaves it out. GitLab is asked one call at a time, so a check no longer locks the whole site. A web page that only links to a download step is followed once.
• Orbit, the First Time: The first visit explains that Orbit is your own list. You can hide it there, and turn it back on in Settings. The note stays until you tap Hide or Keep.
• Source Tokens: Orbit can send a GitHub, GitLab or Codeberg token so private repos and rate limits are not a wall. Each field says what to paste and opens the page that creates that token. The GitHub token is the one already in Developer tools.
• Navigation: With Orbit in the bar, the dock draws a little smaller so every tab still fits.
• Settings Place: Opening a settings page and coming back leaves you where you were, instead of jumping to the top.
• Share Reminder: After every five apps added to Orbit, Orion asks you to share one with the library. The reminder stays until you choose Share one or Later.
• Split Bundles: XAPK, APKM and APKS install through root, Shizuku, Dhizuku, wireless debugging and Android's installer. Orion keeps the splits that match this phone.
• My Apps Swipe: Swipe the library left or right to move between All, Installed, Downloaded and Updates. The pills still work.
• On-device Models: AI settings can import a LiteRT model from this phone or download one from a Hugging Face link. On-device replies use a shorter prompt so a small model answers sooner.
• Developer Page: Opening every app by one developer no longer crashes on phones where the sheet measured the list with no height.
• Inspect Then Install: Inspect keeps the build it downloaded. Install on that screen uses the same file.
• Split Files Open: An XAPK, APKM, APKS or zip of APKs is read from the APKs inside it, so Install with Orion accepts the bundle.
• Messages: Short notes along the bottom are an expressive card instead of a plain bar.
• New and Updated Follows Your Tab: Switching between Apps, PC and TV while New and Updated is open now shows that platform's apps instead of keeping the previous ones. A collection's full list goes back to the store home when you switch platforms.

Sideloading protection rebuilt from the ground up, and the APK installer now looks inside every APK before it goes in. Plus Beyond install right on the installer sheet.

Updating from 2.x.x? Install 2.6.5 over your current Orion Store. Your profile, XP, badges and settings come along.

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🛡️ Sideloading Protection, Rebuilt

• Secure Me Actually Works: The fix that turns off developer verification now picks a working route every time: root, then Shizuku, then built-in wireless debugging. A route that isn't running no longer blocks the others.
• Checked, Not Assumed: After every run Orion looks at the phone itself. If Android refused, the popup shows the exact reason instead of a generic error.
• Shows Up When It Should: The popup no longer waits for your 6th launch. It appears the first time Orion spots developer verification.
• No More Accidental Closing: Tapping outside the popup doesn't dismiss it anymore. Only its buttons and Back close it.
• Setup Built In: No root, Shizuku or wireless debugging yet? The popup opens the wireless debugging setup and comes back by itself to finish the job.
• Protection Shield: A shield in the search bar shows the state at a glance. Crossed while verification is on, checked once Orion turned it off. Tap it any time.
• One Tap Revert: Changed your mind? Tap the shield and Revert puts the verifier and every setting back exactly as they were.
• Your Call: Hide the shield with Protection shield in Orion Xtra. The status row there opens the popup too.

🔬 Inside This APK

• Know Before You Install: The APK installer sheet now reads the file first and shows what it finds on a card above the buttons.
• Built With: Spots Flutter, React Native (and Hermes), Unity, Unreal, Godot, .NET MAUI, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin, Capacitor, Cordova, Qt and more.
• Will It Run Here: Warns before you tap when the APK needs a newer Android or was built for a different processor.
• 16 KB Page Ready: Checks every 64-bit native library for Android 15+ phones with 16 KB memory pages, and names the ones that aren't ready.
• Tracker Scan: Finds tracker SDKs like Firebase Analytics, AdMob, AppsFlyer, Facebook and Unity Ads right in the app's code, fully offline.
• New Permissions: Updates mark the permissions they add, and sensitive ones stand out.
• The Full Page: Tap the card for SDK levels, components, native libraries with what each one is, a size breakdown and the signing key's SHA-256, with debug keys flagged.

⚙️ Beyond Install On The APK Sheet

• One Switch Away: Beyond install now has its own toggle on the APK installer sheet, with all 19 switches.
• Works Over Wireless Debugging Too: Options run through root, Shizuku or built-in wireless debugging.
• Picked For You: Switches the APK can't install without, like Allow downgrade for an older version or Bypass target SDK block for an old app, are turned on and marked Needed.

📣 Announcements

• Cleaner Header: The megaphone now sits next to Settings and only shows while an announcement is unread. Tap Got it and it leaves until a new one is pushed.
• Read It Again: The last announcement stays one tap away from the megaphone at the top of Settings.

🔧 Fixes

• Wireless Debugging Commands: Commands that adbd never finished answering now time out cleanly instead of hanging.

Orion is now an APK installer too, guards your phone against Android's developer verification, and fixes Beta and Nightly updates. Plus GitHub stars, popularity charts, batch uninstall and cleaner share links.

Updating from 2.x.x? Install 2.6.0 over your current Orion Store. Your profile, XP, badges and settings come along.

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📦 Install Any APK With Orion

• Install With Orion: Open an APK in your file manager, browser or a share sheet and pick Install with Orion. A sheet slides up over the app you were in.
• Everything Before You Tap: The sheet shows the app's icon, name, package, version and what is already installed, and warns you before a signer clash.
• No 24-Hour Wait: It installs through root, Shizuku, Dhizuku or built-in wireless debugging when you set one up, so unverified apps go in right away.
• VirusTotal Before You Install: Scan the exact APK with your own VirusTotal key right from the install sheet.
• From Settings Too: Install an APK file in Settings picks any APK on your phone.

🛡️ Sideloading Protection

• Developer Verification Guard: Orion now spots when Android has switched on its developer verification component, the one that can slow down or block sideloaded apps.
• One Tap To Turn It Off: A clean popup offers Secure me. One tap uses your set up privileged method to switch verification off and keep installs instant.
• Reversible And Quiet: It only appears when the component is actually active, shows once, and uses the official, reversible route. Nothing changes until you tap.
• Works Across Phones: Falls back from root to Shizuku to built-in wireless ADB, so the guard works whether you run One UI, HyperOS or stock.

🔄 Updates That Follow Your Channel

• Betas Stay Betas: Installing a Beta, Alpha or Nightly no longer shows the Stable build as an update right after. Updates now follow the channel you installed.
• Right Build In The Background: Auto-update downloads the next build of your channel instead of the Stable APK.

⭐ Stars And Charts

• GitHub Stars: Apps hosted on GitHub show their star count under the developer name.
• Most Popular And Hidden Gems: Two new charts after the bundles rank apps by stars, from the most loved to the ones worth discovering.
• Free For Guests: Stars come with the catalog, so they never use your GitHub requests.

🧹 My Apps

• Batch Uninstall: Long-press an installed app to start picking, tap more or All, then Uninstall them together.

📝 App Pages

• What's New Appears Instantly: The row shows right away and the notes load in the background.
• Same Spot For Updates: What's new now sits below About on every app page.
• Readable Colors: Patches and What's new use proper Material You color pairs, so text stays readable on every palette.

🔗 Cleaner Share Links

• Short And Clean: Shared links now look like rookieenough.github.io/Orion-Data/app/?id=app instead of a long redirect with an icon address. Old links keep working.

📺 TV And Big Screens

• TV Downloads Fixed: Downloads that sat at 0% on some TVs now switch to a plain connection by themselves when a server stalls.
• Tablets And Foldables: Settings, About, Know Orion and Orion AI no longer stretch edge to edge, and the Featured cards keep their shape with the next ones peeking in.

✨ Polish

• Full Screen Toggle: Turn the hidden status bar on or off in Settings, Look & feel.

A store that loads everywhere, even on blocked networks and slow mobile data. Uninstall apps without leaving Orion, read what changed before you update, install with advanced options, and make Orion yours with new app icons and dock styles.

Updating from 2.3.5? Install 2.4.5 over your current Orion Store. Your profile, XP, badges and settings come along.

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🌐 Loads On Every Network

• No More "Currently Unavailable": Phones whose network, DNS or ad blocker blocks GitHub now load the catalog through backup servers and a secure DNS fallback, so apps show their versions and download again.
• Works On Slow Mobile Data: The catalog no longer gives up after a few seconds on a weak connection, and only downloads release data again when it actually changed.
• Lighter On Memory: Release data is read in small pieces, so low-RAM phones stop failing to load it.
• Never Empty Again: If release data can't be reached, apps keep their last known versions while new apps still arrive.

🗑️ Uninstall From Orion

• Uninstall Button: Installed apps get an Uninstall button next to Open on the app page, and in the ⋮ menu.
• From My Apps Too: Every installed app in My Apps has a ⋮ menu with Open and Uninstall.
• Silent With Root, Shizuku or Dhizuku: With root mode, silent install or Dhizuku on, Orion asks once and removes the app in the background.

📝 What's New

• Changelogs On App Pages: A What's new row shows the release notes of the version you would download. Tap it to read, tap again to fold it away.
• Front And Center For Updates: When an update is waiting, its changelog sits right under the version and size.

📤 Smarter Submissions

• Category Picked For You: The submission form now guesses the category from the app's name, description and repo topics, learned from how the whole catalog is sorted. Change it anytime.
• Every Category: All catalog categories are available, from Music and Anime to Browsers and Health.

🔄 Auto-Updates That Install

• Install Automatically Works: Updates Orion downloads while it is open or in the background now install by themselves when Install automatically is on, through root, Shizuku, Dhizuku, the 24-hour skip or Android's own silent updates.
• Shizuku In The Background: Background passes now wait for Shizuku to connect instead of failing right away.

📶 Wireless Debugging On Its Own

• Turns Itself On: Like Shizuku, Orion switches Wireless debugging (and Developer options) back on by itself before an instant install, and restarts it once when it is on but not answering.
• Pairing That Lasts: Orion turns off Android's 7-day authorization timeout, so the pairing is no longer forgotten after a week.

🛡️ Dhizuku Support

• Device Owner Installs: Turn on Dhizuku in Settings, Orion Xtra for silent installs, updates and uninstalls through Dhizuku's shared device owner. No Shizuku or root needed. Android 8 and up.

🛡️ Guardian

• Readable Debloat Notes: The info box for each app now shows a clear heading, one note per paragraph, tappable links shortened to their site, and sources listed neatly at the bottom.

🔍 Fewer Tracker Flags

• Stripped Ad SDK: Unity Ads no longer starts with the app, its background service is gone, and Orion no longer asks for the advertising ID or Android's ad-measurement permissions. The only part left is the screen that plays the video you choose to watch in Fuel the Code.

⚙️ Install With Options

• Advanced Install Sheet: Turn on Install with options in Settings, Orion Xtra. Every root or Shizuku install then opens a sheet to choose how it installs.
• 19 Options: Allow downgrade, grant all permissions, allow restricted settings, allow test builds, bypass the target SDK block, allow preview SDK builds, keep the app running, only this user, internal storage or SD card, enable rollback, skip package verification, visible to every app, ignore the dexopt profile, instant or full app, virtual preload, show as installed by Play Store, or any custom installer. Options your Android version lacks stay hidden.
• Remembers Your Picks: Your last choices are preselected, and background updates use them too.

🧩 Patches At A Glance

• Folded Patch List: Modded apps show one Patches row with the count. Tap it to see every patch applied to that build, one per line.

🏆 Hall Of Fame

• Updates Itself: Once you join the leaderboard, Orion refreshes your entry on its own after you level up, at most every two days. No more resubmitting by hand.
• Cleaner Pilot Card: The card header now just says Orion Pilot, your rank already sits under your name.

💜 One Person Behind Orion

• A Rare Reminder: Every now and then after an install, Orion mentions that the app, catalog, bots, relay and builds are all run by one person, with a way to support it. It shows at most once every 10 days, and Don't ask again turns it off for good.

🎨 Make It Yours

• Five New App Icons: Midnight, Sunset, Ocean and Mint are free. Neon unlocks at 50 Fuel the Code ads and Gold at 100. Pick one in Settings, Look & feel.
• Five New Dock Styles: Classic bar, Icons, Labeled, Vibrant and Shape shift, each previewed in Settings, Look & feel. Vibrant unlocks at 25 ads and Shape shift at 50.
• New Badges: Unlock both locked icons for Icon Collector, and both locked docks for Dock Master. Each badge adds 150 XP.

Choose which apps Orion looks after, see every app from one developer, and download faster. Failed installs now tell you exactly why in plain words, Debloat works again, categories show the right apps, and a new Performance mode keeps older phones smooth.

Updating from 2.2.5? Install 2.3.5 over your current Orion Store. Your profile, XP, badges and settings come along.

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🗂️ My Apps

• Don't Manage an App: Open an installed app's ⋮ menu and pick Don't manage with Orion. It leaves My Apps and stops getting update alerts and auto-updates.
• Skip Apps From Other Stores: A new switch in Settings, Downloads keeps apps installed by Play Store or any other store out of My Apps and updates.
• Not Managed List: Hidden apps wait in a folded Not managed section at the bottom of My Apps, each with a Manage button to bring it back.
• Arrange Your Filters: Long-press a filter pill and drag it sideways to reorder. The order is saved.

⚡ Faster and Smoother

• Faster Downloads: Big files now download over several connections at once, which is much quicker on GitHub and other servers that limit speed per connection.
• Smoother Scrolling: Lighter drawing across the whole store, so lists and pages scroll more smoothly on every phone.
• Instant First Visits: Orion's code is prepared when it installs, and each tab's icons load ahead, so the first switch to PC, TV or Dev is as quick as every one after.
• Performance Mode: Auto, Lite, Balanced or Boost in Settings, Visuals. Lite stops decorative motion on older phones, Boost keeps more images ready and the screen at its fastest refresh rate. Auto picks Lite on low-memory phones.

🧑‍💻 Developer Page

• Every App From One Developer: Tap the developer's name on an app page to see all their apps in one place.

🛡️ Installs That Explain Themselves

• Know Before It Fails: Installing a mod over an app from Play Store or another mod now tells you up front that it can't work and why, with a button to uninstall the current one.
• Hidden Copies Found: If a copy is still hiding in Secure Folder, a Work profile, Dual apps or Second space, Orion says so and how to remove it.
• Clear Failure Messages: Silent, Shizuku, root and wireless ADB installs that fail now show a simple explanation on screen instead of a code.

✨ Orion AI

• Knows Your Apps: Orion AI sees which catalog apps are on your phone, skips them in suggestions and answers questions about your updates.
• Smarter Answers: Better at comparisons, follow-ups and install problems, finds apps by developer name too, and replies in your language.

🛡️ Guardian

• A Calmer Guardian: Perms, Surgeon and Debloat are one clean scrolling list each, with nothing pinned on top. Every app shows a small status dot; tap it for details and actions.
• App Details in Debloat: Tap any app to see what it does, how safe it is to remove, and remove or restore it from there.
• Better Safety Ratings: Ratings and descriptions now come from the maintained UAD-ng list, so services like Bluetooth MIDI are no longer marked as Recommended to remove.
• Every App Shows Up: Debloat, APK Surgeon and the permission checker now list all installed apps, including user apps and apps without risky permissions.

🛠️ Fixes

• Black Dock on OLED: With the OLED theme the bottom bar is pitch black, outlined so it stays easy to see.
• Edge to Edge Rows: Sideways scrolling rows now run to the screen edges instead of cutting off.
• Developer Tile: Its shape now sits in the corner like on every other settings tile.
• Leaderboard Avatars: Only the built-in avatars can appear on the leaderboard now.
• Debloat Works Again: Confirming an uninstall or permission revoke in Guardian now actually runs it.
• Accurate Categories: Music, Health and Reading no longer pull in budget trackers, network tools or anything else that only mentions "track".
• TV Settings Scroll: On Android TV, the remote now moves through Settings and other full-screen pages instead of the screen behind them.
• Ignored Updates Show Up: Ignoring an update for a week or until the next version now lists the app under Ignored updates, with the days left for weekly ignores.
• Dock Hides Fully: The bottom bar now slides all the way off small screens while scrolling.
• Tablet Download Button: On tablets and in landscape the app page buttons stay a comfortable width.

Meet Orion AI: describe the app you need and it finds the right ones in the catalog, ready to download right in the chat. Build your own color palettes, enjoy a compact dock out of the box, and get proper landscape on Android TV, smarter detection of beta builds and a cleaner compact mode.

Updating from 2.2.0? Install 2.2.5 over your current Orion Store. Your profile, XP, badges and settings come along.

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✨ Orion AI

• Ask for Any App: Tap the little star and say what you need, like "an app to listen to music for free". Orion AI finds the apps in the catalog that fit.
• Fast, Streaming Replies: Answers start in a second or two and type out as they arrive.
• Stop Anytime: The send button turns into Stop while a reply is coming in.
• Get It Right There: Every suggestion has its own Get, Update, Install or Open button, and tapping a card opens the full app page. Back takes you straight to the conversation.
• Bring Your Own Key: Works with Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, OpenRouter, Groq, DeepSeek, Mistral or any OpenAI-compatible server. Gemini has a free tier. Your key stays on your device and only goes to the provider you pick.
• Runs on Your Phone Too: Pick On device to download a model from Hugging Face and chat offline. Orion checks your phone's memory and storage and marks the best model for it, from the tiny SmolLM2 to Phi-4 mini. Downloads resume and keep going in the background.
• Pick Your Model: Browse the models your key can use, or type one in.
• Follow-Ups: Ask for something lighter, open source or for your TV and it remembers what it already suggested.
• A Star You Can Move: The AI button is a small translucent star. Drag it anywhere on screen and it stays there.
• Expressive Chat: A morphing orb, springy message bubbles, suggestion chips to get started and gentle chimes when you send and get replies.
• Your Call: Turn the sounds off, or hide the star, in Settings → Interface → Orion AI. The chat stays one tap away there too.

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🎨 Make Your Own Palette

• Palette Maker: Tap Make at the end of the palette row in Settings → Look & feel and pick a primary color with hue and intensity sliders, quick swatches or a hex code.
• Secondary and Tertiary: Let them match your primary automatically or give each its own color.
• Soft, Balanced or Vivid: Choose how bold the tones get.
• Live Preview: See your palette on a slice of Orion in Light, Dusk, Dark and OLED before you save it.
• Keep Several: Your palettes sit next to the built-in ones. Long-press one to edit or delete it, and they come along in backups.

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🧭 Compact Dock by Default

• Smaller Dock: The floating dock now starts at its compact size, leaving more room for apps. Change it any time in Settings → Look & feel → Dock size.

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📦 Orion is Lighter Now

• Even after implementing more features, I have managed to reduce the size of Orion Store from 9.59MB to just 7.3MB

🐛 Fixes

• Landscape on Android TV: Orion no longer gets stuck in portrait on TVs and TV boxes, including boxes that don't identify as TVs. Phones still stay portrait, tablets and foldables still rotate.
• Beta Builds Detected: Apps installed as a separate beta or channel build, like CloudStream's prerelease, now show as installed. Orion reads the real package from every APK it installs and recognizes channel builds such as .prerelease, .beta2 or .nightly installed from anywhere else.
• Compact Rows Sit Straight: Icons and text on classic rows no longer drift toward the top when compact mode is on, in the store and in ignored updates.
• Know Orion Clears the Notch: The floating chapter bar and header in the field guide no longer slide under the camera cutout.
• No More On-Screen Back Buttons: Know Orion closes with your phone's back button or gesture, like everything else.

Orion lands on Android TV (beta), and you can get to know it better than ever. A new field guide walks through every feature in the app, classic rows now preview each app's description and wear an icon for their category, Compact mode packs more onto every screen, and eight new palettes join the lineup. Plus livelier backups, a lighter store, a cleaner pilot card flip and sharper corners and labels on every phone.

Updating from 2.1.x? Install 2.2.0 over your current Orion Store. Your profile, XP, badges and settings come along.

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📺 Android TV (Beta)

• Orion on Your TV: Install Orion on an Android TV or Google TV and it shows up in the TV launcher with its own banner.
• Made for the Remote: Browse every screen with the D-pad. The focused card lifts and wears a ring so you always know where you are, and the store has a refresh button since remotes can't pull to refresh.
• TV Apps, Installed on the TV: On a TV, Orion opens on the TV catalog and downloads, installs, updates and opens TV apps right there, just like Android apps on a phone. Auto-update covers them too.
• Safe Margins: Content stays clear of the screen edges on TVs that crop the picture.
• Help Shape It: TV support is in beta. Tap the TV · Beta pill in the header to report anything that feels off.

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🧭 Know Orion

• Every Feature in One Place: A new field guide covers the whole app in ten chapters: the store, app pages, downloads, installing, Guardian and Sentinel, look and feel, backup, XP and badges, games and the Dev tab.
• Jump Straight There: Features with an arrow open their screen or setting in one tap.
• Search the Guide: Type a word like backup or theme to find the feature you're after, or hop between chapters with the chips at the top.
• Find It on the Dev Tab: Tap the book button at the top of the Dev tab, right next to Settings.

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📖 About This App, Right in the List

• Description Previews: Classic layout rows now show the first two lines of each app's "About this app" text under its name.
• See More in Place: Tap See more... to read the full description right inside the row, and See less to fold it back. No need to open the app page.
• Your Call: Prefer tidy rows? Turn off About this app in Settings → Interface → Store layout.

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🏷️ Category Icons

• Every Category Gets a Glyph: Media, Social, Privacy, Development, Educational, Health, Emulators, Reading, Customization and the rest each have their own icon on classic rows, so you can scan a list at a glance.
• Smart Matching: Combined categories like "Utility/Networking" or "Health & Fitness" pick the icon that fits them best.

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🎨 Eight New Palettes

• More Colors: Grape, Mint, Ember, Amber, Cyber, Midnight, Lime and Cocoa join Orion, Ocean, Forest, Sunset, Rose and Mono, for fourteen palettes in all.
• Tuned for Every Theme: Each one is built for Light, Dusk, Dark and OLED. Pick yours in Settings → Look & feel.

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☁️ Backups You Can See

• Back Up Now, Animated: Tapping Back up now in cloud backup lifts the upload arrow inside a wavy ring, then lands it as a check on a turning cookie while the row glows green. The caption follows each step, and a failed backup says so right there.
• Local Backups Too: The Back up button for your .osf file shows the same saving, saved and failed states.

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🗜️ Compact Mode

• Denser Everywhere: Turn on Compact mode in Settings → Look & feel and the whole store tightens up: smaller grid tiles that fit an extra column on modern home, slimmer classic rows, tighter swimlanes and a denser My Apps library.
• Quick Toggle: Compact is also available as a quick toggle in the Settings hub.

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🐛 Fixes

• Clean Pilot Card Flip: Flipping the pilot card no longer leaves dark streaks along its edges, most visible in light mode. The developer coin on the About tab flips cleanly too.
• Rounded Corners on Every Phone: Ignored updates in My Apps, the welcome screen points, Guardian's permission lists and the loading placeholders now round the right corners on every device.
• Full Labels on the Profile: Stat labels like "Downloaded" now shrink to fit on narrow screens and large font sizes instead of getting cut off.

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⚡ Performance

• Lighter Store Tabs: The classic list and favorites filter are worked out once instead of on every screen refresh, so scrolling stays smooth while downloads are running.
• Faster Lookups: Ignored updates and your own bundles find their apps instantly instead of searching the whole catalog.
• Less Disk Work: Orion skips saving data that hasn't changed, which cuts constant file writes during downloads.

Make Orion yours: updates that install themselves, your own quick toggles, Settings arranged your way, automatic cloud backup and a full root toolkit. Plus a tougher climb to the top, a fair leaderboard, stable-only updates, a working "App details in store" shortcut and bundles that remember where you were.

Updating from 2.0.x? Install 2.1.5 over your current Orion Store. Your profile, XP, badges and settings come along. Levels are recalculated on the new XP curve, so your level number may read lower than before.

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🔄 Hands-Free Updates

• Updates That Install Themselves: Turn on Auto-update apps, then Install automatically in Settings → Network. Every few hours, even with Orion closed and after a reboot, Orion checks for updates, downloads them and installs them over your current apps.
• Safe by Design: Orion reads installed versions straight from Android, checks every download is a valid APK of the very same app, and respects Wi-Fi only, Stable releases only and ignored updates. It waits for good battery and storage, and steps aside while you're using the store.
• Silent Where Android Allows It: With Root mode or Shizuku, every update installs silently. Without them, Android 12+ installs updates silently for apps Orion installed.
• Nothing Fails Quietly: If an update can't install (a different signature, low storage, Android asking for a confirmation), you get a notification that opens the app ready to install with one tap, and the next time you open Orion it shows exactly what happened.

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🏆 Fair Play

• A Tougher Climb: Each level now takes more XP than the last, and the gap keeps growing. Bronze Wings sit at 1,185 XP, Silver at 14,355 and Gold at 55,125.
• Ads Must Be Earned: Only a fully watched ad fuels the code. Skipped ads, failed loads and missing ads no longer pay out, missions are spaced 30 seconds apart, and Fuel the Code pays out up to 20 times a day.
• Mini Game Limits: Orion Run gives up to 300 XP a day.
• Easter Egg Exploit Fixed: The Easter egg counted as a watched ad, letting XP be farmed without limit. It still unlocks its badge, but no longer grants XP or Fuel the Code progress. Thanks to @icyfrost5 for reporting this exploit privately in my Discord DMs.
• Honest Backups: Restoring a save with more progress than anyone could have earned is refused, and tier badges are re-earned from your real XP.
• Leaderboard Integrity Check: Progress that fails the same check can't be submitted to the Hall of Fame.

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🎛️ Settings, Your Way

• Custom Quick Toggles: Tap the pencil next to Quick toggles and pick the settings you flip most: auto-update, Wi-Fi only, stable only, auto-cleanup, animations, glass dock and more. Hold and drag a tile to reorder it. Reset brings back the defaults.
• Arrange the Settings Hub: Long-press any settings card and drag it around. Cards trade places live as you pass over them and glide into their new spots. The layout keeps its shape, so it always looks right. Reset restores the original order.
• Both carry over in your identity backup.

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☁️ Automatic Cloud Backup

• Back Up to Your Own Cloud: In Settings → Backup, connect Google Drive, OneDrive, Proton Drive or any storage app on your phone, then choose Daily, Weekly or Monthly. Orion keeps your identity file there up to date on its own.
• Still Serverless: No Orion account and no Orion server. Your backup goes straight from your phone to the cloud you picked, through Android's own file picker.
• Back Up Now and Disconnect whenever you like. Restoring works from the same file.

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🔓 Root Toolkit

Root is optional. Turn on Root mode in Settings → Orion Xtra and Orion unlocks:

• Root Installs: Silent installs and updates with no prompts, no Shizuku and no wireless debugging. No 24-hour wait either.
• Orion Owns Its Updates: Apps installed with root list Orion as their installer, so Android's "App details in store" and update ownership point to Orion.
• Adopt Installed Apps: Got catalog apps from somewhere else? Orion can take over their updates in one tap. Your app data stays exactly as it was.
• Update Lock (Android 14+): Other stores have to ask you before they update apps Orion installed.
• Clear Every App's Cache: Free space across all your apps at once.
• Guardian with Root: Permission revoke, APK extraction and debloat all run on root too, with no Shizuku needed.

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✨ New

• Stable Releases Only: A new switch in Settings → Network hides Beta, Alpha and Nightly builds whenever an app has a stable release. Downloads, the version picker, update checks and auto-update all stick to stable. Apps that only ship prereleases keep working as before. Turn it off and your per-app channel choices come back. (#140). Thanks @yugdabgar21 for the idea.
• Tablets and Landscape: Orion now rotates freely on tablets and unfolded foldables, with no more locked portrait window. Pages sit in a comfortable, centered column on wide screens. Phones stay in portrait.
• What's New, Always Current: Release notes now come straight from Orion's GitHub releases: short headlines grouped by section, with the full notes one tap away.
• Undo and Redo Your Signature: The pilot card signature pad now has undo and redo for every stroke, clear and ink change.
• Preview Submission Screenshots: Tap any screenshot while submitting an app to view it full screen.
• App Details in Store: In Android's Settings → Apps → App info, the App details in store row now opens the app's page in Orion Store for anything Orion installed. When two catalog entries share a package name, Orion opens the one you installed. Thanks @Zokii0. (#123)

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🐛 Fixes

• One Popup at a Time: Welcome screens, notices, tours, tips and messages now wait their turn and appear one by one, only after you close the previous one. They no longer show over the update or maintenance screens.
• Bundles Remember You: Opening an app from a bundle and going back now returns you to that bundle instead of dropping you on the home screen.

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⚡ Performance

• Smoother Pull to Refresh Picker: The pixel characters are now drawn once and reused, so the pull-to-refresh picker opens without a stutter. Pulling to refresh on the store gets the same speedup.