# mttkay/ignition

Kick-starts Android application development.

Repository: https://github.com/mttkay/ignition
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mttkay-ignition
Language: Java
License Family: other
Last push: 2013-01-31T16:08:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5534, "days_push": 4962, "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 1271, forks 287 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:11.947638+00:00)

## What it is
Ignition is an Android library project that kick-starts app development by providing ready-to-use components and utility classes that wrap common boilerplate. It is split into three sub-projects: ignition-core (UI components), ignition-support (utilities, HTTP wrapper, caching), and ignition-location (AspectJ-based location handling).

## Use cases
- reduce boilerplate when building Android apps
- write robust HTTP networking code on Android
- load and cache remote images in Android apps
- cache HTTP responses or object trees to memory and disk
- handle location updates without Activity boilerplate
- use a friendlier AsyncTask implementation
- maintain backwards compatibility across Android API levels

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Android app already built on ignition
- working on an old Android project targeting pre-2013 API levels where modern libraries are unavailable

## When to avoid
- starting a new Android project - the library is unmaintained since 2013 and lacks a license
- modern Android development where AndroidX, Retrofit, OkHttp, Glide, and WorkManager cover these needs
- projects requiring active support or security updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-client, caching, ui-components, image-processing
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, developer-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: android-boilerplate, async-task, remote-image-loading, location-services, android

## Member repositories
- mttkay/ignition (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:11.947638+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 2026-08-30T05:03:23.029278+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mttkay/ignition (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:11.947638+00:00, sha 775a9f29f2eb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.