# android/nowinandroid

A fully functional Android app built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose

Repository: https://github.com/android/nowinandroid
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nowinandroid
Language: Kotlin
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: android, jetpack-compose, kotlin, sample
Last push: 2026-08-26T23:52:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1597, "days_push": 7, "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 21726, forks 4594 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:32.010523+00:00)

## What it is
Now in Android is a fully functional Android news app built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, demonstrating official Android architecture and development best practices. It serves as a reference sample for developers while also delivering real Android development news content.

## Use cases
- learn modern Android app architecture with Jetpack Compose
- reference sample for structuring a modular Kotlin Android project
- study best practices for Android UI, testing, and dependency injection
- keep up with Android development news on mobile
- see how to organize a multi-module Android codebase
- example of Compose UI patterns and offline-first data layers

## When to choose
- you want an authoritative, Google-maintained sample of current Android architecture guidance
- you are starting a new Kotlin/Compose app and want a proven project structure to follow
- you want to learn modularization, testing, and Compose patterns from a real production app

## When to avoid
- you need a ready-made news app to ship as your own product rather than a learning reference
- you target platforms other than Android
- you need a minimal starter template instead of a large, feature-complete sample codebase

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: mobile-framework, ui-components, state-management, testing, developer-tools
- domain: android-tools, mobile-development, education, tutorials, developer-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: jetpack-compose, sample-app, reference-architecture, kotlin, android-development, learning-resource, modularization, android, mobile

## Member repositories
- android/nowinandroid (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:32.010523+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 2026-08-29T16:57:49.226004+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/android/nowinandroid (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:32.010523+00:00, sha b67ad8658849)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.