# roboguice/roboguice

Google Guice on Android, version 3.0 [RETIRED]

Repository: https://github.com/roboguice/roboguice
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/roboguice
Language: Java
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2017-01-19T21:02:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5134, "days_push": 3513, "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 3721, forks 804 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:15.500377+00:00)

## What it is
RoboGuice is a dependency injection framework that brings Google Guice to Android, letting developers inject views, resources, and system services instead of writing boilerplate lookup code. It was retired in August 2016 and its maintainers recommend migrating to other Android DI frameworks.

## Use cases
- inject views and resources on Android instead of findViewById
- use Google Guice dependency injection in an Android app
- reduce boilerplate in Android activity code
- inject system services into Android components

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Android app already built on RoboGuice

## When to avoid
- starting a new Android project
- you need a supported, maintained DI framework
- you want modern Android dependency injection like Dagger or Hilt

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: middleware
- domain: mobile-development, developer-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: dependency-injection, guice, retired, android-library, android

## Member repositories
- roboguice/roboguice (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.500377+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 2026-08-29T18:29:19.942198+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/roboguice/roboguice (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.500377+00:00, sha 45517f38837d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.