How to guide a User To click on a View?

Question

I would like to guide a user of my app to click on a specific setting in my settings activity (not click automatically).
I've seen apps where the view gets the translucent ripple animation when the activity/fragment is opened to guide the user to Click on that item/view. In My case,

AlertDialog.Builder(this)
            .setTitle("Complete Sign Up")
            .setMessage("Please Enter Additional Details To complete Sign Up")
            .setPositiveButton("Take Me There") { dialog, whichButton ->
                   val settingsAlertIntent=Intent(this, SettingsActivity::class.java)
                   this.startActivity(settingsAlertIntent)
            }.setNegativeButton("I'll Do it later"){ dialog, whichButton ->
                   dialog.cancel()
            }
            .show()

After The Settings Intent is opened, I'd Like to show a ripple animation of some sort to guide the user to click on a view in the settings activity.

My idea was to get a background tint which was translucent and reset after a handler finishes,but seems to be a bad implementation.

Answer 1

There are plenty of libraries which you can use to show actions and their description on your views. We call it as Showcase of the views.

I am listing some of the libraries that you can use to fulfill your requirements.

• https://github.com/TakuSemba/Spotlight
• https://github.com/mreram/ShowCaseView
• https://github.com/deano2390/MaterialShowcaseView
• https://github.com/faruktoptas/FancyShowCaseView
• https://github.com/florent37/TutoShowcase