# davidschreiber/FancyCoverFlow

A cool Open Source CoverFlow view for Android with several fancy effects.

Repository: https://github.com/davidschreiber/FancyCoverFlow
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fancycoverflow
Homepage: http://davidschreiber.github.io/FancyCoverFlow/
Language: Java
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2015-09-08T20:15:52+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": 4870, "days_push": 4012, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1077, forks 386 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:29.700194+00:00)

## What it is
FancyCoverFlow is an open-source Android widget that implements a CoverFlow-style gallery with effects like rotation, alpha fading, desaturation, scaling, and reflections. It can be configured in code or inflated from XML and works on arbitrary views and view groups.

## Use cases
- add a coverflow-style image carousel to an Android app
- create a 3D rotating gallery of album covers
- apply fade, scale, and desaturation effects to unselected items in a horizontal list
- show reflections under gallery items in Android
- build a fancy swipeable card selector UI

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy Android app already using it
- you need a quick CoverFlow effect on an old Android project with no external dependencies

## When to avoid
- starting a new Android project - the project is explicitly no longer maintained
- you need modern RecyclerView-based carousels or good performance
- you need touch event transformations on view groups

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, graphics
- platform: jvm
- tags: coverflow, view-transformations, android-widget, unmaintained, android

## Member repositories
- davidschreiber/FancyCoverFlow (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:29.700194+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 2026-08-30T06:53:14.389803+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/davidschreiber/FancyCoverFlow (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:29.700194+00:00, sha dfdaa2decdc7)
  - homepage: http://davidschreiber.github.io/FancyCoverFlow/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:54:23.784533+00:00, sha 4b2437dc7468)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.