TapTargetView vs ShortcutBadger

TapTargetView

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

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ShortcutBadger

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

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TapTargetView		ShortcutBadger
	Project
2	Mentions	3
5,325	Stars	7,326
0.2%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
8 months ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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.

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

What are some alternatives?

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

AppIntro - Make a cool intro for your Android app.

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

cardslib - Android Library to build a UI Card

SwipeSelector - A nicer-looking, more intuitive and highly customizable alternative for radio buttons and dropdowns for Android.

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.

AndroidQuery - AndroidQuery

AndroidNotificationJson - json2notification

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)

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

SlidingCard - Sliding cards with pretty gallery effects.