TapTargetView vs android-viewbadger

TapTargetView

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

android-viewbadger

[DEPRECATED] A simple way to "badge" any given Android view at runtime without having to cater for it in layout (by jgilfelt)

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TapTargetView		android-viewbadger
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2	Mentions	-
5,325	Stars	3,019
0.2%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
8 months ago	Latest Commit	over 8 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.

android-viewbadger

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing TapTargetView and android-viewbadger you can also consider the following projects:

AppIntro - Make a cool intro for your Android app.

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

cardslib - Android Library to build a UI Card

material-animated-switch - A material Switch with icon animations and color transitions

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.

Badge - :octocat: Drawable of badge.

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)

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

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

DragSortListView - Android ListView with drag and drop reordering.

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