Origin Ghost Player

Make OriginOS's native OriginPlayer widget show up for any app.

OriginOS (vivo/iQOO's Android skin) has a native "OriginPlayer" media widget that only activates for a short whitelist of media apps it recognizes. Origin Ghost Player bridges any real app's media session — Spotify, a browser tab, whatever's actually playing — onto a whitelisted identity, so OriginPlayer renders its native widget for it. The app itself stays invisible: no notification, no persistent UI, just a background bridge.

Ships as two builds, same code, different spoofed identity — pick whichever native widget you prefer:

• Kugou (origin-ghost-player-kugou-<version>.apk) — the original, most-tested identity.
• Luna (origin-ghost-player-luna-<version>.apk) — Luna Music's identity gets a noticeably bigger lockscreen widget (more room for album art and text) and karaoke support in OriginPlayer that Kugou's doesn't surface.

This is a hobby project, not an official vivo/iQOO/OriginOS product, and not affiliated with Kugou or Luna.

What it does

• Watches for any active media session system-wide (via notification-listener access) and mirrors whichever one is actually playing.
• No card of its own, no notification. Unlike origin-isle (which posts real notification-based cards), this app publishes nothing visible — OriginOS's own native OriginPlayer chrome is the only thing you see.
• Real playback controls. Tapping OriginPlayer's controls or its widget forwards straight back to the real source app.
• Survives being swiped away, same keep-alive recipe as origin-isle.

Before you install

• This only works on vivo/iQOO phones running OriginOS. Elsewhere it just runs invisibly and does nothing.
• It can't be installed alongside the real app whose identity it's using — the Kugou build conflicts with the real Kugou Music Lite app (酷狗音乐概念版, com.kugou.android.lite), the Luna build conflicts with the real Luna Music app (com.luna.music) — same applicationId, same as origin-isle's AMap conflict. Uninstall the real one first if you have it. See docs/DEV.md for why.
• It reads your notifications (to find media sessions), so ONLY install it from this repo's Releases page.

Installing

1. Go to this repo's Releases page and download either origin-ghost-player-kugou-<version>.apk or origin-ghost-player-luna-<version>.apk (see above for the difference) and its matching .sha256 file.
2. Check the checksum (confirms the file wasn't corrupted or swapped for something else):

   shasum -a 256 origin-ghost-player-<variant>-<version>.apk
   

   Compare the result to the .sha256 file you downloaded — they should match exactly.
3. On your phone, allow installing apps from this source when prompted, then open the downloaded APK to install it.
4. Open Origin Ghost Player. The first screen explains and links to the two permissions it wants: notification access (required) and unrestricted background running (recommended, so OriginOS doesn't kill the bridge while your screen is off).
5. Play something in any media app and check your status bar / lock screen / always-on-display for the native OriginPlayer widget.

Verifying you have a genuine build

This app reads your notifications, so confirm any downloaded APK actually came from the maintainer. It's signed with the same key as origin-isle:

apksigner verify --print-certs origin-ghost-player-<version>.apk

The output should show this fingerprint:

SHA-256: 5D:2D:FA:7E:F6:A9:6B:95:4A:C2:43:61:A3:30:BA:9B:2C:EA:45:18:C5:B8:63:58:C9:F4:FF:B1:1D:79:E6:00

If either the checksum or the certificate fingerprint doesn't match, don't install the file — it isn't an official build.

For developers

Want to build it yourself, understand the Kugou/Luna package-name spoof, or cut a signed release? See docs/DEV.md.

License

See LICENSE — a source-available, no-redistribution license. In short: you can read the code and build it for your own devices, but you can't redistribute the source, modified versions, or any build of it (signed or not) to anyone else.