making user friendly help and hint for app android programming

Question

i'm sorry for my bad english speaking. i am developing an android app. iwant make a user friendly help for my layouts if you see "viber" or "go backup" thease apps show a alpha layout on main layout for user helping on first run. for example see theas picture 1- main layout

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2- when help is showing

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how can i make something like this? any idea? thank u

You question isn't the most clear, I am not clear on what a 'viber' is — jcw, Nov 10 '12 at 16:05
i want to make a help for my app. when app ran first time a alpha layout showed on app's main layout, just like above pictures — aTa, Nov 11 '12 at 18:18

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

Here are a few of my ideas of how you might do this

Create a popup with no background color attribute, and dim the background, then using an image view, placed overtop of the icon that you are helping the user with, show a highlighted picture of your icon

Making a popup - How to create a popup window in android?

Diming the background - Blur or dim background when Android PopupWindow active

Or you could create a sperate layout, by copying your original layout, putting it in a framelayout, and overlaying a dim empty image view, and putting your text view, your button, and a small highlighted icon overtop of this view

Framelayout - http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/FrameLayout.html

Hope this helps, if you have any questions feel free to ask

making user friendly help and hint for app android programming

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