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hdodenhof/CircleImageView

46.0

Weak · 25 September 2026

419

lines of production code

Java

primary language

5

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What this system is

This system is a reusable Android UI component, specifically a CircleImageView, designed to render circular images with customizable styling. It supports visual attributes such as background color, image transparency, and border placement, while also providing a sample application to demonstrate its usage. The project has been modernized with updated build tools and AndroidX dependencies.

Features

Add CircleImageView sample application

A new sample application has been added to demonstrate the CircleImageView library. This includes the main activity, layout, and resource files that showcase the view's capabilities with both light and dark themes.

sample · high confidence

Add support for circle background color and image alpha

Users can now set a background color behind the circular image using the new \civ\_circle\_background\_color\ attribute and the \setCircleBackgroundColor()\ method. Additionally, the \setImageAlpha()\ method and \civ\_image\_alpha\ attribute allow controlling the image's transparency. The component also enables bitmap filtering and dithering for improved image quality, and introduces a \civ\_border\_overlay\ attribute to control whether the border is drawn in front of or behind the image.

circleimageview/src/main/java · high confidence

Behavioural changes

Upgraded Gradle build tooling

The project's Gradle wrapper has been upgraded from version 1.9 to 5.6.4, updating the underlying build system used to compile and package the application.

gradle · high confidence

Dependencies

Upgrade Android build environment to AndroidX and modern Gradle

The project's build configuration has been significantly modernized. The Android Gradle plugin was upgraded to version 3.6.1, and the compile SDK and build tools were updated to version 29. The project has migrated to AndroidX (enabled via gradle.properties) and updated the library plugin to 'com.android.library'. Additionally, the sample app was added to the build, and the project now depends on 'androidx.annotation:annotation:1.1.0'.

(dependencies) · high confidence

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

How this codebase got here

Score

  • CAI 42 → 46 (+4.4)
  • Rubric changed (rubric-2026.08.19 → rubric-2026.09.15) — scores are not directly comparable.

Lenses

  • Code Health 95 → 97 (+2.2)
  • Architecture 69 → 100 (+31.0)
  • Maturity 45 → 45 (+0.0)
  • Readiness 17 → 17 (+0.0)
  • Security 100 → 100 (+0.0)

Resolved (4)

  • Dependency hygiene not measured — dependency manifest found but not parsed for hygiene
  • No exposed public API
  • The README does not mention how to integrate with a third-party image-loading library like Picasso/Glide beyond the noFade/dontAnimate/noFade options and the custom-target animation path; it assumes readers know these libraries already. (README.md)
  • dormant codebase — no living knowledge left to concentrate

New (3)

  • Dependency hygiene PARTLY measured — Maven/Gradle declarations read, no dependency graph resolved
  • Documentation: no installation or build instructions (README.md)
  • Documentation: no usage examples (README.md)

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

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About this page

  • The score is its most recent published measurement, taken on 25 September 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
  • Measured at commit 59ee0a11d7199cdeb2d454ebeaaa8396238c418f — the exact code this score is about.
  • Scored under rubric-2026.09.15 — the same rubric and the same method as every other entry in this index.
  • Measured by watchdog.canine.dev using codehealth-analyzer preprod-f917f263222d.