# airbnb/Showkase

🔦 Showkase is an annotation-processor based Android library that helps you organize, discover, search and visualize Jetpack Compose UI elements

Repository: https://github.com/airbnb/Showkase
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/showkase
Homepage: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/introducing-showkase-a-library-to-organize-discover-and-visualize-your-jetpack-compose-elements-d5c34ef01095
Language: Kotlin
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: android, android-library, jetpack-compose, jetpack-android, annotation-processor, ui-components, reusable-components, design-systems
Last push: 2026-03-27T19:29:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 63/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 74, release rhythm 29, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2325, "days_push": 159, "days_rel": 394, "gap_med": 52, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2317, forks 121 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:36.868207+00:00)

## What it is
Showkase is an annotation-processor based Android library that organizes, discovers, searches, and visualizes Jetpack Compose UI elements such as composables, colors, and typography. It auto-generates an in-app browser with permutations like dark mode, RTL, and scaled fonts to catch UI issues early.

## Use cases
- browse and search all Jetpack Compose components in my app
- build a design system browser for Android without manual work
- preview composables in dark mode and RTL layouts
- find duplicate or reusable UI components in a large codebase
- visualize colors and typography from my design system
- catch UI issues early with auto-generated component permutations

## When to choose
- your Android team uses Jetpack Compose and struggles with component discoverability
- you maintain a design system and need a searchable component browser
- you want automatic previews of composables under dark mode, RTL, and font scaling
- you already use @Preview and want those components surfaced in a browser

## When to avoid
- your project uses XML Views instead of Jetpack Compose
- you need iOS, web, or cross-platform component previews
- you want screenshot testing or CI visual regression rather than an interactive browser

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: ui-components, developer-tools, documentation
- domain: mobile-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: jetpack-compose, annotation-processor, component-browser, design-system, kotlin, ui-preview, design-systems, android, mobile

## Member repositories
- airbnb/Showkase (main) score 63

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:36.868207+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 2026-08-30T02:38:55.577418+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/airbnb/Showkase (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:36.868207+00:00, sha badd4f2a1c79)
  - homepage: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/introducing-showkase-a-library-to-organize-discover-and-visualize-your-jetpack-compose-elements-d5c34ef01095 (fetched 2026-08-29T10:19:07.950171+00:00, sha e6b76cacc9d9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.