# google/hover

A floating menu library for Android.

Repository: https://github.com/google/hover
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/google-hover
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-06-02T13:05:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3915, "days_push": 1918, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2610, forks 277 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:04.292594+00:00)

## What it is
Hover is an Android library that provides an out-of-the-box floating menu implementation, plus tools for building custom floating menus. It supports dockable, expandable/collapsible overlay menus that run as foreground services on Android O and later.

## Use cases
- add a floating menu to my android app
- implement a draggable overlay menu like facebook chat heads
- create a floating quick-access launcher on android
- show an expandable hover menu over other apps
- build a custom floating widget menu in java for android

## When to choose
- you need a ready-made floating/overlay menu on Android with minimal setup
- you want a Java-based Android library you can extend into a custom floating menu
- you need Android O+ foreground-service overlay support

## When to avoid
- you need a library with active maintenance or recent releases (last release 2021)
- you develop in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose and want modern UI idioms
- you need cross-platform floating UI beyond Android

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, mobile-framework
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, web-development
- platform: -
- tags: floating-menu, overlay, android-ui, java, assisted-service, android

## Member repositories
- google/hover (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:04.292594+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 2026-08-30T02:20:53.108980+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/google/hover (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:04.292594+00:00, sha 71cd6f441b6a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.