MaterialScrollBar vs TapTargetView

MaterialScrollBar

An Android library that brings the Material Design 5.1 sidebar to pre-5.1 devices. (by turing-tech)

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TapTargetView

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

Other Widget Material feature-discovery Android Material Design UI material-components

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MaterialScrollBar		TapTargetView
	Project
-	Mentions	2
782	Stars	5,326
-	Growth	0.2%
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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MaterialScrollBar

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TapTargetView

Posts with mentions or reviews of TapTargetView. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-04.

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?

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

DraggablePanel

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)