# stephanenicolas/robospice

Repo of the Open Source Android library : RoboSpice. RoboSpice is a modular android library that makes writing asynchronous long running tasks easy. It is specialized in network requests, supports caching and offers REST requests out-of-the box using extension modules.

Repository: https://github.com/stephanenicolas/robospice
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/robospice
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-01-14T04:12:11+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": 5096, "days_push": 3153, "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 2925, forks 539 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:30.391549+00:00)

## What it is
RoboSpice is a modular Android library that simplifies writing asynchronous long-running tasks, specialized in network requests. It executes REST requests in a background Android service, caches results in various formats, and delivers results to activities with respect to their lifecycles without memory leaks.

## Use cases
- make asynchronous network requests in android apps
- cache REST API responses on android
- run background network tasks without leaking activities
- notify android activities of request results on the UI thread
- execute multiple network requests concurrently on android

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Android app already built on RoboSpice
- supporting very old Android versions (Froyo+) with a proven request library

## When to avoid
- starting a new Android project - the library is explicitly unmaintained
- targeting Android O or newer where its service model is problematic
- modern async networking - prefer Retrofit with RxJava/Kotlin coroutines

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-client, caching, concurrency
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, web-development
- platform: jvm
- tags: android-library, rest-client, asynchronous-tasks, background-service, unmaintained, android, mobile

## Member repositories
- stephanenicolas/robospice (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:30.391549+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 2026-08-30T07:33:43.231459+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/stephanenicolas/robospice (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:30.391549+00:00, sha c0b713820f03)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.