TapTargetView vs AndroidSlidingUpPanel

TapTargetView

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

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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. (by umano)

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TapTargetView		AndroidSlidingUpPanel
	Project
2	Mentions	1
5,326	Stars	9,494
0.2%	Growth	0.2%
0.0	Activity	0.0
9 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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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.

AndroidSlidingUpPanel

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

I like to download random apps and see the UI, any idea how they did this sliding screen that collapses into the small view on the bottom? if you go back to the dashboard it's there too and it expands to show the same fragment
1 project | /r/androiddev | 6 Feb 2022

What are some alternatives?

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

AppIntro - Make a cool intro for your Android app.

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

cardslib - Android Library to build a UI Card

android-FlipView - A small, easy to use android library for implementing flipping between views as seen in the popular Flipboard application

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

AndroidExpandingViewLibrary - This is a library to help creating expanding views with animation in Android

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)

ShortcutBadger - An Android library supports badge notification like iOS in Samsung, LG, Sony and HTC launchers.

DragSortListView - Android ListView with drag and drop reordering.

DraggablePanel