hamzabellouch/omicron

Omicron is an Android app for downloading media off the internet, built around two well known command line tools wrapped behind a touch friendly interface. The first tool is yt-dlp, an actively maintained fork of youtube-dl that knows how to extract videos and audio from hundreds of websites, including YouTube and many smaller platforms. The second is aria2c, a download accelerator that opens multiple parallel connections to fetch a file faster than a single stream would manage. Omicron embeds both inside the APK so the user does not have to install anything separately on their phone. The README lists eight features. You can download from any platform supported by yt-dlp, grab whole playlists in one tap, get accelerated multi connection downloads through aria2c, fetch and embed subtitles directly into the video file, embed metadata and thumbnails into extracted audio using the mutagen library, run custom yt-dlp commands and save them as reusable templates, and manage everything inside a built in download manager. The user interface is Material Design 3 with dynamic color theming, the colour scheme that adapts to the wallpaper on modern Android. Under the hood the project is 100 percent Kotlin and uses Jetpack Compose for the UI, following a single activity architecture. The author calls out adherence to Modern Android Development principles, Google's umbrella term for current best practice on the platform. Dependencies of note are yt-dlp, aria2c, and mutagen, all bundled in the app. Installation is done by sideloading. You go to the GitHub Releases page, download the latest APK, and install it on the device with Install from unknown sources enabled in Android settings. Building from source is listed as not available yet, but the standard steps are sketched: clone the repository, open it in Android Studio, sync Gradle, and build to a device or emulator. The README is bilingual, with an English version and an Arabic translation of the same content. The project is released under the MIT license.