mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchAn open-source Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability. Currently in alpha.
Accrescent 0.27.0 is here! This is the most significant release we've made to date:
- New, stable app store API
- Complete installer rewrite, resolving all known bugs
- Tons of new features
- More snappy, correct, & informative UI
Check it out! 👇
https://github.com/accrescent/accrescent/releases/tag/0.27.0
If you've wondered how Android developer verification affects Accrescent, today we have a new blog post explaining briefly what it is, how it impacts us, and how we're responding.
https://blog.accrescent.app/posts/android-developer-verification/
Accrescent 0.28.0 is out, including:
- Download cancellation support
- Better update scheduling (especially on Android 14+)
- UI improvements and bug fixes
Full release notes below!
https://github.com/accrescent/accrescent/releases/tag/0.28.0
It's time for an update! Check out our blog for a new update on:
- What we've accomplished in the last 3 months
- What's next for Accrescent
Thank you to our supporters for making this possible!
Since we published our blog post on the future of Accrescent, donations have increased dramatically.
According to the rates in that post, we should now be able to fund full-time development through at least May 2026!
Thank you to our community for your monumental support!
Because of you, we can dedicate ourselves fully to our mission of building a modern Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability.
If you want to read the original blog post: https://blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-future-of-accrescent/
Or if you want to see our plans: https://blog.accrescent.app/posts/progress-update-and-roadmap/
Development on our roadmap is progressing smoothly. Our next app and server releases are undergoing final testing before deployment.
We hope to make an announcement soon about what Android's recently announced developer verification requirements mean for Accrescent. Stay tuned!
Accrescent depends completely on donations to run. Today we share a significant update in our new blog post on the future of Accrescent: https://blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-future-of-accrescent/.
New releases of Accrescent and our developer console are also out, with Android 16 updates and Material 3 changes. Check them out!
https://github.com/accrescent/accrescent/releases/tag/0.26.0
https://github.com/accrescent/parcelo/releases/tag/0.12.0
https://github.com/accrescent/console/releases/tag/0.12.0
Today is the day! Read all about our development progress, view our roadmap for the future, and check out the new projects we're releasing as open source in our new blog post!
https://blog.accrescent.app/posts/progress-update-and-roadmap/
Check out our new repositories:
https://github.com/accrescent/android-bundle
https://github.com/accrescent/directory
https://github.com/accrescent/directory-api
https://github.com/accrescent/ina
With the Amazon Appstore shutting down, it's becoming even more important to invest in sustainable alternative stores you can trust.
See how you can invest in Accrescent's future! A little help goes a long way:
https://accrescent.app/faq#contributing
More information on the Amazon Appstore discontinuation on Android:
Accrescent 0.25.0 is out with Android 15 app archiving support, Private Space support, and settings UI improvements!
We also forgot to announce that since 0.24.0, Accrescent supports in-app predictive back!
Check out the release notes below 👇
https://github.com/accrescent/accrescent/releases/tag/0.25.0
#privacy #security #appstore #android #accrescent #opensource
Accrescent 0.24.0 is out with settings menu accessibility improvements, target SDK 35 (Android 15), and LOTS of translation and dependency updates! 🎉
Download it from our website at https://accrescent.app or read the changelog below 👇
https://github.com/accrescent/accrescent/releases/tag/0.24.0
Accrescent recently surpassed 1,000 stars on GitHub 🥳! Thank you to everyone for your continued support!
If you'd like to help us grow, check out https://accrescent.app/faq#contributing. There are lots of ways to contribute even if you can't code!
With the release of Parcelo 0.11.0, we've made some significant changes to our server infrastructure. App developers can now find the developer console at console.accrescent.app.
If you encounter any issues, please let us know ASAP through our socials or contacts on our site.
@bebop@defcon.social Hi! We are still very much in active development and hope to post an update soon. We have GitHub activity, so be sure you're looking at all of our repositories, not just the one for the Accrescent app. For example, we've made extensive changes to Parcelo and changes to the console API, our API gRPC gateway, and console web app (plus a code generator project which is currently private but will be open sourced soon).
@zahox@mastodon.social Hi! Was Cake Wallet installed through Accrescent, or another app store? That information would help us figure out the cause.
@bebop@defcon.social Thank you!
@anton_kaminsky@mastodon.social Accrescent has been developed mostly in unpaid developers' free time for most of its existence, so it hasn't had the time to mature enough for us to be comfortable allowing a large number of apps to be submitted. We don't want app developers to encounter too many issues. We artificially limit submissions right now for this reason, though developers frequently request submission access.
We recently received enough funding to sponsor a full-time developer though and have been making more extensive development progress in the last few months as a result.
@zahox@mastodon.social Unfortunately no. We have the capacity to manage communities on only a few platforms.
@zxzx01@mastodon.social RiMusic and Clipious should be delisted (not visible to new users) once we implement support for that in our servers.
We don't manage the updates to apps in Accrescent, their developers do, so if the app hasn't been updated, it's because they haven't uploaded a new version (or in some cases, because we haven't reviewed the update yet). But as far as we know, both Transcribro and NextPush are actively maintained.
