# andreasschrade/android-design-template

This is a State of the Art Android Material Design template. You can use this project as a template for upcoming App projects. Just clone the project, change package name and make all necessary customisations.

Repository: https://github.com/andreasschrade/android-design-template
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/android-design-template
Homepage: http://andreas-schrade.de
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2015-12-17T19:19:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3914, "days_push": 3912, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1160, forks 260 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:49.076591+00:00)

## What it is
An Android Material Design starter template project written in Java, providing a pre-built view layer with collapsing toolbars, navigation drawer, and tablet layouts. Developers clone it, rename the package, and customize it as the base for new Android apps.

## Use cases
- bootstrap a new android app with material design
- starter project with navigation drawer and collapsing toolbar
- material design template for android apps
- clone and customize an android app skeleton
- learn material design layout patterns in android

## When to choose
- starting a new Android app that should follow Material Design guidelines
- wanting a ready-made navigation drawer, toolbar, and preferences setup
- learning how Material Design components are wired together in Java

## When to avoid
- building with Kotlin or Jetpack Compose
- needing an actively maintained template with current support library versions
- targeting only modern Android with the latest architecture components

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, mobile-framework
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, web-design
- platform: -
- tags: material-design, android-template, java, starter-project, navigation-drawer, boilerplate, android

## Member repositories
- andreasschrade/android-design-template (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:49.076591+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:33:24.802205+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/andreasschrade/android-design-template (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:49.076591+00:00, sha 9001eac7a612)
  - homepage: http://andreas-schrade.de (fetched 2026-08-29T12:36:18.833690+00:00, sha e383215a240b)
  - site_page: https://andreasschrade.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T12:36:18.836192+00:00, sha a89a06484665)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.