How to create a helpful tooltip in Android

java android user-interface tooltip
Joe Simpson picture Joe Simpson · Apr 4, 2011 · Viewed 30.7k times · Source

I would like to create a tooltip like thing in Android to help show my users what something is, as people have told me they don't know what it is. For an idea of what i'm after here is a drawing:

Diagram

Answer

Joseph Earl picture Joseph Earl · Apr 7, 2011

This is the QuickAction UI pattern. Take a look at:

  1. GreenDroid, a collection of Android widgets - namely the QuickAction... widgets such as QuickActionBar, QuickActionGrid etc
  2. How to create a QuickAction dialog in Android

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