TapTargetView vs BottomBar

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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BottomBar

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

#Other Widget #Android #Material Design #bottom-navigation #Library #Java

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TapTargetView		BottomBar
	Project
2	Mentions	0
5,196	Stars	8,436
0.2%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
9 months ago	Latest Commit	10 months 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 | reddit.com/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.

BottomBar

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

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

What are some alternatives?

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

AppIntro - Make a cool intro for your Android app.

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

android-iconify - Android integration of multiple icon providers such as FontAwesome, Entypo, Typicons,...

DragSortListView - Android ListView with drag and drop reordering.

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)

android-sliding-layer-lib - Highly customizable SlidingLayer as you have seen in Wunderlist

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

cardslib - Android Library to build a UI Card

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TapTargetView vs AppIntro

BottomBar vs AndroidSlidingUpPanel

TapTargetView vs AndroidSlidingUpPanel

TapTargetView vs android-viewbadger

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TapTargetView vs DragSortListView

TapTargetView vs WizardPager

BottomBar vs android-sliding-layer-lib