US Government Shutdown:

As of October 14th, 2025: The APOD service is now not responding. The app just times out after a (long) while.

As of October 3rd, 2025: The APOD service is still live and responding. However it is not updated and the service returns the same image every day.

AstroPic ~ Image Downloader and Wallpaper App'

Downloads and manages images from various online providers:

• the NASA Astronomy Pictures of the Day (APOD)
• Bing Wallpaper of the day
• Google Earth View images
• NASA Epic (Camera onboard the DSCOVR spacecraft.)
• OpenVerse.Org

Then...

• Set image as Wallpaper (Windows Only for now)
• Rotating wallpapers
• Include your own images into the wallpaper collection.
• Managing the image collection
• Handle user settings.

Localization:

• Human translated: Spanish, Italian, French and English
• Machine translated: Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Armenian, Greek, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Magyar, Hindi and Bengali.

Last Improvements...

• Upgraded to .Net 10
• Now showing translated image title and descriptions.
• Image information overlay
• Localization for additional languages using this translation tool: https://github.com/LaurentInSeattle/Lyt.Avalonia.Translator
• The localization tool has been integrated in the Visual Studio 2026 build as a "pre-build event".

Given up, On hold:

• Mac OS support. (No machine for testing.)
• Autostart: Tired to struggle with account security and permissions

Settings

Build your own...

• Clone this repo'
• => Clone the "Lyt.Framework" repo' side by side
• => Clone the "Lyt.Avalonia" repo' side by side
• Open the solution in Visual Studio 2026 and build.

Tested with VS 2026 Insider and Avalonia 11.3.7. Should likely work with Rider, but not tested.