Which has better activity and maintenance signals?

Based on the RepoPilot analysis provided:

jakewharton/butterknife shows a clear maintenance status: The project is deprecated. The README explicitly states:

"Attention: This tool is now deprecated. Please switch to view binding. Existing versions will continue to work, obviously, but only critical bug fixes for integration with AGP will be considered. Feature development and general bug fixes have stopped."

The CHANGELOG reflects this trajectory—the last version (10.2.3) was released in August 2020 with only a bug fix. Earlier changelog entries (starting from 9.0.0-rc1 in October 2018) repeatedly note that "Development on this tool is winding down."

sqshq/piggymetrics is described as a tutorial project demonstrating microservice architecture using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Docker. The README shows CI/CD badges (Travis CI, codecov), suggesting active monitoring, though the repository data doesn't include maintenance signals like recent commit activity or release frequency.

Verdict: Neither shows strong current maintenance, but for different reasons:

• butterknife is intentionally deprecated with only critical fixes
• piggymetrics appears to be a completed tutorial project (no explicit deprecation notice, but no active development signals visible in the provided data)

For reliability signals, the RepoPilot analysis rates butterknife with a "GO" verdict across all four use cases, indicating it's healthy despite being deprecated—suitable for existing codebases that depend on it.

FOLLOW_UPS:

• What's butterknife's replacement strategy in modern Android?
• Does piggymetrics have recent commits or releases?
• Which should I choose for a new Android project?