ShortcutBadger vs SwipeSelector

ShortcutBadger

An Android library supports badge notification like iOS in Samsung, LG, Sony and HTC launchers. (by leolin310148)

SwipeSelector

A nicer-looking, more intuitive and highly customizable alternative for radio buttons and dropdowns for Android. (by roughike)

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ShortcutBadger		SwipeSelector
	Project
3	Mentions	-
7,326	Stars	1,089
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
7 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 5 years ago
Java	Language	Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ShortcutBadger

Posts with mentions or reviews of ShortcutBadger. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-23.

Push notifications service with a customizable badge count
1 project | /r/androiddev | 8 Sep 2022
Popular Android phones that have a badge count
1 project | /r/androiddev | 7 Sep 2022

Yes, it's totally dependent on the launcher. You can achieve something with this https://github.com/leolin310148/ShortcutBadger , but only for launchers that support it.
Alternative to Tasks.org?
2 projects | /r/fossdroid | 23 Jan 2021

About 1/2 of the permissions on that list are added by ShortcutBadger for writing notification badges to various launchers. If you have questions or concerns about any of the other permissions let me know

SwipeSelector

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

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ShortcutBadger and SwipeSelector you can also consider the following projects:

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

android-segmented-control - ios UISegmentedControl for android

AndroidQuery - AndroidQuery

AndroidNotificationJson - json2notification

FlippableStackView - An Android library introducing a stack of Views with the first item being flippable.

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-ProgressFragment - Implementation of the fragment with the ability to display indeterminate progress indicator when you are waiting for the initial data.

SlidingCard - Sliding cards with pretty gallery effects.

FancyCoverFlow - A cool Open Source CoverFlow view for Android with several fancy effects.

AppIntro - Make a cool intro for your Android app.

ckChangeLog - ckChangeLog - An Android Library to display a Change Log