# florent37/MaterialTextField

A different beautiful Floating Edit Text

Repository: https://github.com/florent37/MaterialTextField
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/materialtextfield
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: android, material, text, field, material-design
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-07-02T11:48:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4024, "days_push": 2253, "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 1466, forks 230 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:48.692268+00:00)

## What it is
An Android UI library that wraps EditText views in a MaterialTextField container to create an animated, floating-label text input with Material Design styling. It is distributed as a small Java library for Android apps.

## Use cases
- add floating label animation to Android EditText inputs
- create material design styled text fields in Android
- customize text input appearance with label color and icon
- animate text field expansion on focus in Android app
- replace plain EditText with a beautiful input card

## When to choose
- you want a distinctive animated floating-label input on Android
- you need a lightweight drop-in wrapper around existing EditTexts
- your app follows Material Design input styling

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained components with recent AndroidX updates
- you only need standard Material text fields already provided by the Material Components library
- your project is Kotlin-first and prefers Jetpack Compose inputs

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, animation, form-handling
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, web-design
- platform: jvm
- tags: material-design, floating-label, edittext, android-ui, android, mobile

## Member repositories
- florent37/MaterialTextField (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:48.692268+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 2026-08-30T04:35:03.345813+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/florent37/MaterialTextField (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:48.692268+00:00, sha 7e037b3940bc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.