Animation for help overlay in Android Application

Question

Is it possible to create animations to implement help layout for android applications as in the figure :

Desired Effect : The hand image should move and point to an icon.Then  an effect like ripple is created.

How could we implement animations like this ?

Answer 1

Follow this link :

http://www.xda-developers.com/create-holo-themed-demo-overlays-with-showcaseview/

or

refer this :

Display overlay tooltip on the first run

Answer 2

Yes you can do this by using the ShowCase view library from this github link, it works pretty well and it is very customizable

ShowCaseView