Balloon VS Anko

Compare Balloon vs Anko and see what are their differences.

Balloon

:balloon: Modernized and sophisticated tooltips, fully customizable with an arrow and animations for Android. (by skydoves)

Anko

By Kotlin
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Balloon Anko
0 2
3,559 15,867
- -
9.1 0.0
7 days ago over 4 years ago
Kotlin Kotlin
Apache License 2.0 -
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Balloon

Posts with mentions or reviews of Balloon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Balloon yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Anko

Posts with mentions or reviews of Anko. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-19.
  • Pi Practice App in Compose
    4 projects | dev.to | 19 Apr 2021
    If you take a look at the repository, you'll find something rather interesting in its dependencies. It uses Anko Layouts to render some parts of its UI! This was an early, now deprecated and abandoned attempt by JetBrains to create declarative Android UI with Kotlin DSLs.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Balloon and Anko you can also consider the following projects:

Awesome Jetpack compose - A collaborative list of awesome jetpack compose resources.

Kotterknife

CalendarView - A highly customizable calendar view and compose library for Android.

Pdf Viewer For Android - A Lightweight PDF Viewer Android library which only occupies around 80kb while most of the Pdf viewer occupies up to 16MB space.

Lassi - All in 1 picker library for android.

RxKotlin/Pocket - This is a first kotlin project

CodeView - Display code with syntax highlighting :sparkles: in native way.

Kotlin-AgendaCalendarView - Android calendar library provides easy to use widget with events

RecyclerView Presenter - RecyclerView Adapter Library with different models and different layouts as convenient as possible.

Only - :bouquet: An easy way to persist and run code block only as many times as necessary on Android.

ObservableFlow - Functional Constructs for Databinding + Kotlin + RxJava