# keyboardsurfer/Crouton

Context sensitive notifications for Android

Repository: https://github.com/keyboardsurfer/Crouton
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/keyboardsurfer-crouton
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2015-09-28T15:29:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5143, "days_push": 3992, "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 2979, forks 658 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:33.079218+00:00)

## What it is
Crouton is an Android library providing context-sensitive, styleable in-app notifications as an alternative to the standard Toast API. It allows developers to display queued notification bars at arbitrary positions in an Activity or ViewGroup.

## Use cases
- show in-app notifications on android
- alternative to android toast
- display styled alert bars in an activity
- queue multiple notifications in android app
- attach notification to a viewgroup

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Android app already using Crouton
- targeting very old Android versions where the Design Support Library is unavailable

## When to avoid
- starting a new Android project - use Snackbar from the Android Design Support Library instead
- needing actively maintained notification UI

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, mobile-framework
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: android, toast-alternative, notifications, deprecated, snackbar, mobile

## Member repositories
- keyboardsurfer/Crouton (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:33.079218+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 2026-08-30T07:31:31.444023+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/keyboardsurfer/Crouton (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:33.079218+00:00, sha 962ba0437b93)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.