show/hide Android tooltips programmaticaly

Question

Android tooltips can be defined in the layout and are displayed when clicking or hoovering over the button.

<android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
        android:id="@+id/fab"
        android:tooltipText="Send an email" />

Is there a way to Show/hide tooltips programmaticaly such as

myFabButton.showToolTip();
myFabButton.HideToolTip();

I would like to have a help button that would show/hide all tooltips.

Answer 1

Might be this library can help you with animated tooltip also have method to dismiss and hide the tooptip.

implementation 'com.github.douglasjunior:android-simple-tooltip:0.2.3'

Code :

 final SimpleTooltip tooltip = new SimpleTooltip.Builder(this)
                .anchorView(v)
                .text("your text")
                .gravity(Gravity.TOP)
                .animated(true)
                .transparentOverlay(true)
                .build();
        tooltip.show();
        mHandler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                tooltip.dismiss();
            }
        }, 3000);