# flavienlaurent/NotBoringActionBar

News Stand app makes the ActionBar not boring!

Repository: https://github.com/flavienlaurent/NotBoringActionBar
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/notboringactionbar
Language: Java
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-02-06T15:17:18+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": 4668, "days_push": 1669, "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 1717, forks 416 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:26.412563+00:00)

## What it is
An Android sample project and library demonstrating how to recreate the Google Newsstand app's ActionBar effects, including a fading/blurring ActionBar on scroll and a Ken Burns image animation. It accompanies a 2013 blog post explaining the implementation techniques.

## Use cases
- make the action bar fade or change while scrolling a list
- recreate the Google Newsstand header animation in Android
- add a Ken Burns pan-and-zoom effect to header images
- learn how to coordinate scroll position with toolbar visuals
- build an Android detail screen with an animated hero image

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy Android app using the classic ActionBar and want Newsstand-style scroll effects
- you want a reference implementation of the Ken Burns animation on Android
- you are following the original blog post and want its companion code

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new Android project with modern Material Toolbars and Jetpack Compose
- you need actively maintained, well-supported UI libraries
- you require a licensed, production-ready dependency (the repo has no explicit license file beyond sample headers)

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: animation, ui-components
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, web-design
- platform: -
- tags: actionbar, ken-burns-effect, scroll-effects, android-ui, demo-app, android, mobile

## Member repositories
- flavienlaurent/NotBoringActionBar (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:26.412563+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 2026-08-30T03:34:13.100857+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/flavienlaurent/NotBoringActionBar (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:26.412563+00:00, sha a28adf3cbeec)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.