Android PopupWindow with Tooltip Arrow
android, popupwindow
Solution
There are many libraries and codes available into Market. Links are given below:
This is the QuickAction UI pattern. Take a look at:
QuickAction-Dialog
Quick-action-pattern-in-Android
Chrome Style Help Popups
Another alternative would be "super-tooltips":
https://github.com/nhaarman/supertooltips
Here's a demo of it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haarman.supertooltips
From that first link/example looks like below image. These are just demos, but you can customize as per your requirement.
Problem
I've seen a lot of questions about removing the border of a PopupWindow by passing null or new Drawable() to setBackgroundDrawable(). I'm having the opposite problem. I want a border around my PopupWindow, preferably with a tooltip arrow pointing to my anchor. Currently, my PopupWindow has no border. I've tried adjusting the margins, the background in the xml, the width and height of the layout, listview, and listview rows to no avail. Can someone please help me get a border and an image on the top? I'm trying to stick with the android SDK with this. popup_menu_list.xml ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:orientation="vertical" > <com.github.jeremiemartinez.refreshlistview.RefreshListView android:id="@+id/popup_menu_list_listview" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:background="@color/color_white" /> </LinearLayout> ``` Java ``` private void displayPopupMenu() { LayoutInflater layoutInflater = getLayoutInflater(); View popupView = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.popup_menu_list, null); final PopupWindow popupWindow = new PopupWindow(popupView, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT); RefreshListView myListView = (RefreshListView) popupView.findViewById(R.id.popup_menu_list_listview); mAdapter = new myAdapter(this, getAdapterData()); myListView.setAdapter(mAdapter); popupWindow.showAsDropDown(mMyAnchor); } ``` I just grabbed these as examples, but I want something like this where the popup points to the anchor: But I get something like this: