# iwasrobbed/RPFloatingPlaceholders

UITextField and UITextView subclasses with placeholders that change into floating labels when the fields are populated with text.

Repository: https://github.com/iwasrobbed/RPFloatingPlaceholders
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rpfloatingplaceholders
Homepage: http://dribbble.com/shots/1254439--GIF-Mobile-Form-Interaction
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-01-04T06:42:36+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": 4699, "days_push": 2433, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1114, forks 119 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:38.269221+00:00)

## What it is
Objective-C subclasses of UITextField and UITextView whose placeholders animate into floating labels when the user enters text. It was used in production apps like Booking.com but is now deprecated in favor of JVFloatLabeledTextField.

## Use cases
- floating label text fields in an iOS form
- animate placeholder into label when user types
- material design style input fields on iOS
- login or signup form text inputs with floating labels
- replace plain UITextField placeholders with persistent labels

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Objective-C iOS app that already uses it
- you specifically want upward or downward floating label animation with ARC and iOS 6+ support

## When to avoid
- starting a new iOS project - the repo is deprecated and recommends JVFloatLabeledTextField
- Swift-first codebases looking for actively maintained components
- apps targeting modern iOS only with SwiftUI

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, form-handling, animation
- domain: mobile-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: -
- tags: objective-c, floating-labels, uitextfield, uitextview, deprecated, cocoa-touch, ios, mobile

## Member repositories
- iwasrobbed/RPFloatingPlaceholders (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:38.269221+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 2026-08-30T06:42:31.281132+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/iwasrobbed/RPFloatingPlaceholders (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:38.269221+00:00, sha 96d3996fe322)
  - homepage: http://dribbble.com/shots/1254439--GIF-Mobile-Form-Interaction (fetched 2026-08-29T12:46:07.397440+00:00, sha 3410160dd9a7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.