🚀 Orion Store v1.3.0

Orion Store v1.3.0 is a major polish release focused on a cleaner modern storefront, smarter app submission, stronger theme handling, and a smoother overall experience across Light, Dusk, Dark, and OLED modes ✨

NOTE : 1.3.0 uses a new Keystore, so users are requested to uninstall the previous version before installing 1.3.0. It's the one time setup.

✨ Highlights

• The modern storefront now feels more intentional, with swipeable category cards, curated app lanes, and minimalist recommended bundles.
• Bundle browsing is cleaner and more discoverable, with a dedicated preview window, monogram-style pack identities, and batch download support.
• App submission is smarter, with automatic package name and description detection from supported repositories.
• Font customization now uses a dedicated picker with live preview, making it much easier to preview and apply a new app-wide font.
• The app keeps its immersive, edge-to-edge feel while still respecting safe areas on modern phones.
• Classic remains the default layout for new installs so the app starts in the lighter storefront by default.
• System Default font support is available for users who want Orion to follow the phone's native OEM typeface.
• Compact Mode now pulls cards noticeably closer together, especially in classic grids and modern sorted views.
• Modern UI now prefetches priority icons and hero artwork so the first visible rows feel faster.
• Startup work is deferred more carefully so the app feels smoother while it is opening.

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🧭 Modern UI

• New Modern UI layout with hero carousels, curated swimlanes, and category cards.
• Swipeable category cards for the main store categories.
• Sorted grid preview with a Show All action for the full list.
• Minimal curated app rows with icon-first presentation and lighter visual weight.
• Recommended bundle cards that stay clean and readable even when packs grow larger.
• A dedicated bundle preview modal with direct navigation into each app and batch download support.
• Compact Mode now reduces card gaps in both the classic list grid and modern swimlane/sorted layouts.
• Search and sort controls were tightened up so they feel less stretched and leave more breathing room near screen edges.
• Modern rows keep their denser spacing without changing the overall card style.

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🧱 App Detail Overhaul

• Minimalistic description styling with a cleaner About section, refined typography, and better spacing.
• Patches section for Morphe apps, displayed as pill badges and organized for readability.
• Cleaner detail-card presentation with less visual noise and stronger hierarchy.

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🛡️ Orion Guardian Overhaul

• Complete UI redesign for a cleaner, more minimal, more aesthetic control center.
• Header simplified to icon plus title, with the extra glow noise removed.
• Tabs refined with clearer active and inactive states.
• Search and filter controls cleaned up to feel lighter and less crowded.
• List items and toast notifications streamlined so the panel feels calmer and easier to scan.
• Debloater disclaimer simplified into a cleaner warning treatment.

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🎨 Theme Overhaul

• Light mode refined with better card definition, softer surfaces, and stronger shadow depth.
• Dusk mode polished for a more balanced twilight aesthetic and better contrast.
• Dark mode deepened with a cleaner pure-black presentation and stronger immersion.
• OLED mode tuned for true-black edges and an overall lower-light presentation.
• Theme styling now relies on CSS custom properties for consistent cross-component behavior.
• Glass-off and performance states now fall back to solid themed surfaces instead of translucent blur layers.

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⏳ Loading Experience

• Skeleton loading redesigned so app cards match the real CompactAppCard layout more closely.
• Swimlane skeletons now mirror the horizontal scroll experience with the right dimensions and spacing.
• Improved shimmer animation timing and contrast across all themes.
• Smoother sort transitions reduce the sudden pop-in feeling when the list reshuffles.

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🌌 Fullscreen Immersive Mode

• Edge-to-edge display with transparent status and navigation bars.
• windowLayoutInDisplayCutoutMode: shortEdges for proper notch and cutout handling.
• Safe area insets preserved for the header, bottom nav, and scroll-to-top button.
• viewport-fit=cover enabled for full viewport coverage.

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🚀 Performance & Optimization

• CSS containment applied to collection modules for better rendering performance.
• content-visibility: auto on heavier sections to reduce initial paint cost.
• Optimized shadow rendering with hardware-accelerated transforms.
• Reduced motion support maintained throughout the app for accessibility.
• Image lazy loading with eager priority for above-the-fold content.
• Android refresh-rate handling improved so supported devices can actually request the higher rate.
• Motion and blur work reduced in Smooth Motion / performance mode for a lighter UI.
• Modern storefront icons are prefetched from the first visible collections to reduce placeholder time.
• Small icon requests now use lighter image quality settings for faster decode and paint on older devices.
• Heavy startup tasks such as permission setup, cleanup work, ad initialization, and modal preloading are deferred further into the boot flow.
• Remote source loading is less aggressive at startup, which reduces the amount of parallel fetch and parse work happening right away.

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➕ Added

• A full app font picker with live preview and 10 popular font options: DM Sans, Inter, Manrope, Nunito Sans, Outfit, Plus Jakarta Sans, Poppins, Public Sans, Rubik, and Space Grotesk.
• Repository autofill during submission for GitHub, GitLab, and Codeberg sources.
• Automatic detection of package names and descriptions from repo metadata and Android project files.
• A cleaner app detail layout with a more minimal description section and refined patch badges.
• Better bundle identity treatment with monogram-style icons and minimal pack cards.
• The maintenance screen now includes a direct Discord button so users can check outage updates and recovery status.

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✅ Refined

• The shadow system was reworked so cards feel elevated without trapped or boxy glow artifacts.
• Dark and OLED themes now use softer borders and cleaner contrast instead of harsh white outlines.
• Search, sort, and filter interactions in the modern UI were tightened up to feel more responsive.
• Release keyword handling in the submission flow was polished so the manual toggle and input behave correctly.
• Scroll positioning was improved so modern app lists open from the top instead of mid-page.
• Bottom spacing, safe-area padding, and the scroll-to-top control were tuned for better behavior on smaller phones.
• The installer and system-control panels were simplified to feel calmer and less noisy.
• Loading skeletons were refined across the storefront so hero cards, swimlanes, and bundles feel consistent while content loads.
• Border, shadow, and surface treatment are now more consistent across the whole app.
• The app feels less crowded at the bottom of the screen thanks to tighter spacing and better visual balance.
• Modern image loading now combines eager priority for visible assets with background prefetching for upcoming rows.
• The sort-state mapping for Modern UI now only converts Recently Added into Home Page when the user is actually on the unfiltered home view.
• Orion Store has now inbuilt updater which eliminates the external browser redirection.
• Maintenance mode now has a Discord Join button.

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🔒 Reliability & UX

• Fixed the Clear APK pill reappearing after a cleanup pass by clearing stale ready-to-install state together with cleanup entries.
• Apps that do not currently have a downloadable build now show Currently Unavailable instead of a dead download action.
• Submission flow now warns users not to manually edit Orion-generated JSON after opening the GitHub issue page.

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🐞 Bug Fixes

Previously documented fixes

• Fixed app card skeleton rounded edges not rendering correctly in light mode.
• Resolved sorting grid card overlap on smaller screen sizes with responsive scaling.
• Corrected version comparison logic for update detection across all app types.
• Fixed download progress persistence when switching between app detail and list views.
• Resolved bottom navigation safe area handling on devices with gesture navigation.
• Corrected theme transition flickering during mode switches.
• Fixed compact app card width constraints causing layout shifts in the sorted grid.

Additional fixes in v1.3.0

• Update detection bugs that could show update prompts for apps that are not installed.
• Stale app state that could keep showing updates after an app was uninstalled.
• Mismatched package detection that could assign update state to the wrong app.
• Installation failure cases where a bad package or failed install could be treated as a successful install.
• App card shadow clipping in light, dusk, dark, and OLED modes.
• White border artifacts around cards and option rows in dark themes.
• Release keyword toggle alignment in the submission screen.
• Fixed APP detection where user used to get false app update

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🧩 Technical Changes

• Added sorted_grid collection type and totalAppCount field to StoreCollection.
• Added optional patches field to AppItem.
• Capacitor config updated with StatusBar plugin and transparent backgrounds.
• Android theme updated for edge-to-edge immersive display.
• CSS variables refactored for more consistent theme behavior across components.
• Added a no-light-border utility class for gradient-based cards that should stay clean in light mode.
• Version metadata updated so the app reports 1.3.0 consistently.
• .osf identity export/import continues to carry favorite apps alongside theme, font, and profile progress data.
• Added a developer option tab in the settings for extra features

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After a few months of slow development, 1.3.0 is finally here! Thanks you so much for those who donated, It really helped me a lot. If you haven't donated yet, the click the button below to keep Orion Store alive.