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Peterdk
Peterdk

Reputation: 16015

How to create a overlay with help bubbles on Android?

I recall seeing some android apps having a help overlay that greys the screen a bit and provides textbubbles with helpfull information pointing to various UI objects.

I thought this to be easy, just create a FrameLayoutwith 2 layers, 1 content, 1 helpoverlay. However, it appears that you can't use a RelativeLayout with items that are based upon another RelativeLayout?

How would I go to position these bubbles? Manually?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2955

Answers (1)

rDroid
rDroid

Reputation: 4945

Use a PopupWindow. a sample implementation can be found here : http://sree.cc/google/android/android-popup-window

You can use the popupWindow.showAsDropdown(View anchor) method to attach the popup to any view or manually set the x and y co-ordinates of the popup to be shown.

[EDIT]: you may also want to have a look here : http://code.google.com/p/simple-quickactions/

Upvotes: 4

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