ARK-Store 1.5.0

• Icons: every app is shown with its own icon, read by the index from the APK, as an image or as the vector paths the app then draws itself; IzzyOnDroid and F-Droid give theirs. An app whose icon cannot be read is shown by its initial
• Material surfaces, on by default on Android 13 and later: the screen and everything on it, the search field, the chips, the buttons, the badges, the cards and the sheets, are drawn as brushed metal lit from above, the graphics processor computing the light, the grain and the bevelled edge for every pixel. The setting under Appearance turns them off for flat colours or to save power. The metal is tried once off screen before it is drawn, and a device whose graphics driver cannot draw it keeps the flat colours and says so in the settings. Measured with the release build on a Pixel 8a and a Galaxy Z Flip 4, the metal costs nothing measurable in scrolling, and the text keeps a contrast of at least 7:1 on it, light and dark
• Places as chips: chips under the categories narrow the list to the apps of GitHub, Codeberg, GitLab, IzzyOnDroid or F-Droid, or all of them; the chip of a place that is off in the settings turns it on
• Where an installed app came from: the details say whether it was installed from Google Play, F-Droid, Aurora Store, ARK-Store or another app, and whether it is signed with the same key as the version offered here, so that ARK-Store can update it. The index names the key each file is signed with, read from the APK's signing block, only when every signature scheme in the block agrees and the key has not been rotated
• Forks and look-alikes: the original of a fork that kept its package name is listed on its own, a build of another project is not offered as the installed app's update, and another app altogether installed under an app's package name, such as Google's own under microG Companion's, is shown as what it is, with nothing to open, update or remove. That is told only from a key seen to differ and a name read from the APK itself, never from a catalogue's translated name or a conflict remembered from before
• Search: the apps a search names come first, then those whose repository, developer or package it names, and the result is shown from the top; the number of apps and the order stay above the list with the search and the chips

Download ARK-Store-1.5.0.apk below and open it on your phone to install, or update from inside ARK-Store.