MaterialShowcaseView

A Material Design themed ShowcaseView for Android

This library is heavily inspired by the original ShowcaseView library.

Since Google introduced the Material design philosophy I have seen quite a few apps with a nice clean, flat showcase view (the Youtube app is a good example). The only library out there however is the original one. This was a great library for a long time but the theming is now looking a bit dated.

Gradle

Add the jitpack repo to your your project's build.gradle at the end of repositories Why?

/build.gradle

allprojects {
  repositories {

jcenter()
maven {
 url "https://jitpack.io" 
}
  
}
 
}

Then add the dependency to your module's build.gradle:

/app/build.gradle

compile 'com.github.deano2390:MaterialShowcaseView:1.2.0'

NOTE: Some people have mentioned that they needed to add the @aar suffix to get it to resolve from JitPack:

compile 'com.github.deano2390:MaterialShowcaseView:1.2.0@aar'

How to use

This is the basic usage of a single showcase view, you should check out the sample app for more advanced usage.

 // single example  new MaterialShowcaseView.Builder(this)
.setTarget(mButtonShow)
.setDismissText("GOT IT")
.setContentText("This is some amazing feature you should know about")
.setDelay(withDelay) // optional but starting animations immediately in onCreate can make them choppy
.singleUse(SHOWCASE_ID) // provide a unique ID used to ensure it is only shown once
.show();

 // sequence example

  ShowcaseConfig config = new ShowcaseConfig();
  config.setDelay(500);
 // half second between each showcase view
MaterialShowcaseSequence sequence = new MaterialShowcaseSequence(this, SHOWCASE_ID);

sequence.setConfig(config);

sequence.addSequenceItem(mButtonOne,
"This is button one", "GOT IT");

sequence.addSequenceItem(mButtonTwo,
"This is button two", "GOT IT");

sequence.addSequenceItem(mButtonThree,
"This is button three", "GOT IT");

sequence.start();

  

Why Jitpack

Publishing libraries to Maven is a chore that takes time and effort. Jitpack.io allows me to release without ever leaving GitHub so I can release easily and more often.

Apps using MaterialShowcaseView

• Say It! - English Learning : An Android App aimed to improve your English Pronunciation.
  • Github Page

License

Copyright 2015 Dean Wild  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.