# antwankakki/FabricView

A new canvas drawing library for Android. Aims to be the Fabric.js for Android. Supports text, images, and hand/stylus drawing input. The library has a website and API docs, check it out

Repository: https://github.com/antwankakki/FabricView
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fabricview
Homepage: http://antwankakki.github.io/FabricView/
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2021-08-30T01:49:43+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": 3983, "days_push": 1830, "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 1029, forks 177 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:17.558374+00:00)

## What it is
FabricView is an Android canvas drawing library inspired by Fabric.js, supporting hand/stylus drawing, text, and images. It lets developers embed an interactive drawing view for doodling, annotation, or signature capture.

## Use cases
- add a freehand drawing canvas to an android app
- capture user signatures for authentication
- let users doodle or annotate images with stylus or finger
- export a drawing canvas as an image
- build a notebook or graph-paper style sketching view

## When to choose
- you need a ready-made Android view for freehand drawing or signature capture
- you want a Fabric.js-like object canvas on Android
- you need image and text support inside a drawing canvas

## When to avoid
- you need a fully polished, actively maintained library with layers and transforms
- you are targeting platforms other than Android
- you need advanced vector editing features that are still on the roadmap

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, image-processing
- domain: mobile-development, graphics, android-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: canvas-drawing, stylus-input, signature-capture, doodling, fabricjs-inspired, android

## Member repositories
- antwankakki/FabricView (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:17.558374+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 2026-08-30T07:07:38.416053+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/antwankakki/FabricView (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:17.558374+00:00, sha e8f82a304d27)
  - homepage: http://antwankakki.github.io/FabricView/ (fetched 2026-08-29T13:07:14.065401+00:00, sha 93a79bfd11ae)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.