Java
Simple to use library for android, enabling to add a tooltip near any view with ease

Tooltips

Simple to use library for android, Enabling to add a tooltip near any view with ease

Instructions

Add a dependency to your app build.gradle

dependencies {
    compile 'com.tomergoldst.android:tooltips:1.0.1'    
}

Create a ToolTipsManager object

ToolTipsManager mToolTipsManager;
mToolTipsManager = new ToolTipsManager();

Use the ToolTip Builder to construct your tip

ToolTip.Builder builder = new ToolTip.Builder(this, mTextView, mRootLayout, "Tip message", ToolTip.POSITION_ABOVE);

'mTextView' here is the view which near it the tip will be shown and 'mRootLayout' is the layout where the tip view will be added to. The root layout must be of RelativeLayout, FrameLayout or similar. LinearLayout won't work but you can always wrap your LinearLayout with another layout. Prefer to pass in a layout which is higher in the xml tree as this will give the tip view more visible space.

OPTIONAL: Customize your tip with background color, text color, alignment, text gravity and more.

builder.setAlign(ToolTip.ALIGN_LEFT)
builder.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorOrange));
builder.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorBlack));
builder.setGravity(ToolTip.GRAVITY_RIGHT);

Use ToolTipManger to show the tip

IMPORTANT: This must be called after the layout has been drawn You can override the 'onWindowFocusChanged()' of an Activity and show there, Start a delayed runnable from onStart() , React to user action or any other method that works for you

mToolTipsManager.show(builder.build());

Each tip is dismissable by clicking on it, if you want to dismiss a tip from code there are a few options, The most simple way is to do the following

mToolTipsManager.findAndDismiss(mTextView);

Where 'mTextView' is the same view we asked to position a tip near it

If you want to react when tip has been dismissed, Implement ToolTipsManager.TipListener interface and use appropriate ToolTipsManager constructor

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements ToolTipsManager.TipListener
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.
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    mToolTipsManager = new ToolTipsManager(this);
}
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@Override
public void onTipDismissed(View view, boolean byUser) {
    Log.d(TAG, "Dismissed view " + view.hashCode() + " ByUser = " + byUser);
}

License

Copyright 2016 Tomer Goldstein

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.