# amlcurran/ShowcaseView

[Archived] Highlight the best bits of your app to users quickly, simply, and cool...ly

Repository: https://github.com/amlcurran/ShowcaseView
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/showcaseview
Language: Java
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-02-01T16:31:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5132, "days_push": 3135, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5550, forks 1262 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:22.309479+00:00)

## What it is
ShowcaseView is an Android library that highlights specific parts of an app's UI with an attractive overlay to guide users to features, gestures, or points of interest. It supports Holo, new-style, and Material themes and is used via a simple Builder API.

## Use cases
- show a first-time user tour of app features
- highlight a button or menu action to users
- point out gestures in an onboarding flow
- create an overlay spotlight on part of the UI
- add feature discovery tips to an Android app

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy Android app already using it (API 11+)
- you need a simple, proven overlay-highlight library for an older Android project

## When to avoid
- starting a new Android project - the repo is archived and unmaintained
- you need Material You or modern AndroidX-compatible onboarding
- you need queued multi-step tutorials (that feature was removed in v5)

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, frontend
- platform: jvm
- tags: onboarding, user-tour, overlay, highlight, archived, android-library, android, mobile

## Member repositories
- amlcurran/ShowcaseView (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:22.309479+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 2026-08-29T17:55:39.681115+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/amlcurran/ShowcaseView (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:22.309479+00:00, sha b28f8efee7aa)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.