# cyndibaby905/TwitterCover

TwitterCover is a parallax top view with real time blur effect to any UIScrollView, inspired by Twitter for iOS.

Repository: https://github.com/cyndibaby905/TwitterCover
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/twittercover
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2016-01-11T15:41:32+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": 4621, "days_push": 3887, "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 1147, forks 148 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:45.930566+00:00)

## What it is
TwitterCover is an Objective-C library that adds a Twitter-inspired parallax top cover view with real-time blur effect to any UIScrollView on iOS. It is implemented purely with UIKit and drops into a project as a UIScrollView category.

## Use cases
- add a parallax cover image with blur to a scroll view
- recreate the Twitter iOS profile header effect
- add a stretchy blurred header to a user profile screen
- build a parallax top view for a feed or detail page
- drop-in header animation for an iOS app without extra frameworks

## When to choose
- building an older Objective-C iOS app targeting iOS 5+ with ARC
- you want a lightweight UIKit-only parallax blur header with no dependencies
- you want the exact Twitter-style cover effect on a UIScrollView

## When to avoid
- starting a new Swift or SwiftUI project where modern alternatives exist
- you need actively maintained code with recent iOS support
- your header is not based on UIScrollView

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, animation, image-processing
- domain: mobile-development, frontend, graphics
- platform: -
- tags: objective-c, uiscrollview, parallax, blur-effect, twitter-style, uikit, ios, mobile

## Member repositories
- cyndibaby905/TwitterCover (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:45.930566+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 2026-08-30T06:34:02.078832+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cyndibaby905/TwitterCover (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:45.930566+00:00, sha c788ec340917)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.