# CRED-CLUB/synth-android

Synth is CRED's inbuilt library for using Neumorphic components in your app.

Repository: https://github.com/CRED-CLUB/synth-android
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/synth-android
Homepage: https://blog.cred.club/team-cred/design/world-meet-neumorphism-open-sourcing-our-ui-framework/
Language: Kotlin
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: neumorphism, android-library, ui, android, synth, design
Last push: 2021-03-30T07:39:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2059, "days_push": 1982, "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 1026, forks 108 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:16.850218+00:00)

## What it is
Synth is CRED's open-source Android UI library for building Neumorphic (soft UI) components with light, shadow, and depth effects. It provides custom views like soft buttons and platforms, with compat fallbacks for devices below API 28.

## Use cases
- add neumorphic buttons to an android app
- build soft UI components in kotlin
- apply neumorphism design style to android views
- render elevated shadowed buttons on android
- use CRED's design system components in my app

## When to choose
- you want neumorphic UI components on Android with API 28+
- you like CRED's soft-UI design language and want ready-made views
- you need a small drop-in Gradle dependency for styled buttons and platforms

## When to avoid
- your minSdk is below API 28 and you need full neumorphic rendering
- you need a broad general-purpose component library rather than neumorphic views
- you need actively maintained updates - the project has seen no releases since 2021

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: mobile-development, web-design, android-tools
- platform: jvm
- tags: neumorphism, ui-library, design-system, kotlin, soft-ui, android, mobile

## Member repositories
- CRED-CLUB/synth-android (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:16.850218+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 2026-08-30T07:07:56.086406+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/CRED-CLUB/synth-android (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:16.850218+00:00, sha fef7f529e595)
  - homepage: https://blog.cred.club/team-cred/design/world-meet-neumorphism-open-sourcing-our-ui-framework/ (fetched 2026-08-29T13:08:06.632626+00:00, sha 45c2a5a2ab43)
  - site_page: https://cred.club/about (fetched 2026-08-29T13:08:06.642307+00:00, sha 8ffad58abe1d)
  - site_page: https://cred.club/upi-faqs (fetched 2026-08-29T13:08:06.644493+00:00, sha 9ecffa0e46c4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.