DragListView vs TapTargetView

DragListView

Drag and drop to reorder items in a list, grid or board for Android. Based on RecyclerView. Also supports swiping items in a list. (by woxblom)

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TapTargetView

An implementation of tap targets from the Material Design guidelines for feature discovery. (by KeepSafe)

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DragListView		TapTargetView
	Project
-	Mentions	2
683	Stars	5,327
-	Growth	0.1%
3.0	Activity	0.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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DragListView

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

TapTargetView

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Intro showcase view using Jetpack Compose
2 projects | dev.to | 4 Mar 2022

The implementation is inspired by the TapTargetView which is useful for legacy views.
How to "highlight to make the user aware of an action and show a description of it" in XML/Kotlin?
1 project | /r/androiddev | 15 Oct 2021

Just to reply to myself. The proper name seems to be "help overlay" and there are a few interesting libraries. Among all of those I've checked, TapTargetView seems to have the nicest UI.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing DragListView and TapTargetView you can also consider the following projects:

Android-ScrollBarPanel - Android-ScrollBarPanel allows to attach a View to a scroll indicator like it's done in Path 2.0

AppIntro - Make a cool intro for your Android app.

Header-View - Create an header for com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView

cardslib - Android Library to build a UI Card

BottomBar - (Deprecated) A custom view component that mimics the new Material Design Bottom Navigation pattern.

AndroidSlidingUpPanel - This library provides a simple way to add a draggable sliding up panel (popularized by Google Music and Google Maps) to your Android application. Brought to you by Umano.

android-viewbadger - [DEPRECATED] A simple way to "badge" any given Android view at runtime without having to cater for it in layout

SystemBarTint - [DEPRECATED] Apply background tinting to the Android system UI when using KitKat translucent modes

WizardPager - Wizard Pager is a library that provides an example implementation of a Wizard UI on Android, it's based of Roman Nurik's wizard pager (https://github.com/romannurik/android-wizardpager)