DragSortListView vs TapTargetView

DragSortListView

Android ListView with drag and drop reordering. (by bauerca)

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TapTargetView

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

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DragSortListView		TapTargetView
	Project
-	Mentions	2
3,198	Stars	5,326
-	Growth	0.2%
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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DragSortListView

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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.

What are some alternatives?

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

StickyGridHeaders

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cardslib - Android Library to build a UI Card

ScratchView

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-pathview - Android view with both path from constructed path or from svg.

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

DraggablePanel

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

Emoji - A library to add Emoji support to your Android / JVM Application

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)