# willowtreeapps/Hyperion-Android

App Debugging & Inspection Tool for Android

Repository: https://github.com/willowtreeapps/Hyperion-Android
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hyperion-android
Language: Java
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: design, review, hyperion, android, debug, drawer, library, measure, inspect
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-04-18T13:33:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3386, "days_push": 867, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1993, forks 150 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:03.308734+00:00)

## What it is
Hyperion is an Android library that embeds a hidden plugin drawer into apps for debugging and inspection, activated by shaking the device. It supports extensible plugins for measuring views, inspecting attributes, and other in-app development tasks.

## Use cases
- inspect view attributes in a running android app
- measure ui elements during design review
- debug android app layouts on device
- add a hidden debug drawer to my android app
- create custom in-app inspection plugins for android
- open a debug menu by shaking the phone

## When to choose
- you need on-device UI inspection and measurement during android development
- you want an extensible plugin-based debug drawer integrated into your app
- you are doing design review and need to verify measurements and attributes in-app

## When to avoid
- you need network or performance profiling rather than UI inspection
- you want a desktop-based layout inspector like Android Studio's tools
- your project is not Android/Java-based

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools, plugin-system, ui-components
- domain: mobile-development, developer-tools, android-tools
- platform: -
- tags: debugging, inspection, in-app-drawer, design-review, java, android-debugging, android

## Member repositories
- willowtreeapps/Hyperion-Android (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:03.308734+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 2026-08-30T03:02:36.896176+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/willowtreeapps/Hyperion-Android (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:03.308734+00:00, sha 363e788a4b3f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.