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AstroWall

A MacOS agent to fetch Astronomy Picture of the Day and set it as wallpaper. Written in C#.net as a Xamarin project. Published under the MIT license.

Download

Direct link or to the right under releases.

Current features:

  • Auto fetch the latest picture each day
  • Fetch latest pictures and browse them
  • Embed description in picture

Roadmap:

  • Filter pictures based on resolution
  • Filter pictures based on description
  • Scaling options
  • Random picture of all time

Future thoughts

  • Porting to Windows
  • Porting to MAUI
  • Generalizing to other wallpaper download sources

FAQ

Why can't i open the app?

Right click, then open

How come macOS is warning me about malware?

Because i didn't pay Apple for a developers license

What't the catch

None, the project has been made to try out C# skills

Build instructions:

  • Install VS for mac
  • Install Xcode
  • Install script deps: cd scripts && npm install
  • Install nuget packages
  • Build in VS

Source organization

Tries to follow the application layers as described by Microsoft. The UI-layer and Application layer is intertwined, but the business layer is almost platform independent.