TastyToast vs TapTargetView

TastyToast

:bread: Make your native android Toasts Tasty (by yadav-rahul)

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TapTargetView

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

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TastyToast		TapTargetView
	Project
-	Mentions	2
2,042	Stars	5,327
-	Growth	0.1%
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 4 years ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Java	Language	Java
-	License	Apache License 2.0

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TastyToast

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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AndroidGlitterView - A view to show bling bling stars when you touch it.

cardslib - Android Library to build a UI Card

WheelView - An Android Widget for selecting items that rotate on a wheel.

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.

AndroidViewHover - An elegant way to show your menu or messages.

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

CircularCounter - Android Widget

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

AndroidTreeView - AndroidTreeView. TreeView implementation for 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)