# siyamed/android-shape-imageview

Custom shaped android imageview components

Repository: https://github.com/siyamed/android-shape-imageview
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/android-shape-imageview
Language: Java
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2019-07-27T17:05:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4385, "days_push": 2594, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2649, forks 595 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:06.879824+00:00)

## What it is
A set of custom shaped Android ImageView components (bubble, rounded, hexagon, etc.) plus a framework for defining new shapes using shader-based canvas drawing or bitmap masks. Written in Java and distributed via Maven Central as an AAR.

## Use cases
- display images in custom shapes like bubbles or hexagons in an android app
- show chat message images with a speech bubble pointer
- crop images into circles or rounded rectangles in a listview
- create a framework of shaped imageviews with smooth scrolling performance
- mask images with android shape XML drawables

## When to choose
- you need performant shaped imageviews inside recycling views like ListView or GridView
- you want prebuilt shapes such as bubbles, stars, or polygons plus a way to define your own
- you prefer a simple gradle dependency with XML attributes for configuration

## When to avoid
- you are building with Jetpack Compose rather than XML views
- you need actively maintained support for the latest Android versions
- you only need simple circular cropping, which many newer libraries or built-in APIs handle

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, image-processing
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: imageview, custom-shapes, shader, bitmap-mask, chat-bubble, android

## Member repositories
- siyamed/android-shape-imageview (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.879824+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 2026-08-30T02:18:55.582083+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/siyamed/android-shape-imageview (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.879824+00:00, sha cecc97c18527)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.