# skydoves/Balloon

:balloon: Modernized and sophisticated tooltips, fully customizable with an arrow and animations for Android and Jetpack Compose.

Repository: https://github.com/skydoves/Balloon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/balloon
Homepage: https://skydoves.github.io/Balloon/
Language: Kotlin
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: kotlin, android, android-library, popup, animation, dsl, balloon, tooltip, tooltips, android-ui, skydoves, compose, jetpack-compose
Last push: 2026-08-26T18:11:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 93/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 80, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2607, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 139, "gap_med": 11.5, "n_releases_24m": 13}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3992, forks 310 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:31.848404+00:00)

## What it is
Balloon is a Kotlin library for creating fully customizable tooltips and popups on Android, with arrow positioning, rich animations, and overlay highlighting. It supports both traditional Android Views and Jetpack Compose via a Modifier.balloon() API.

## Use cases
- show tooltips to explain UI features in an Android app
- highlight a button with an animated overlay on first launch
- display onboarding popups that appear only once
- chain multiple tooltips to show sequentially in a tour
- add customizable tooltip popups in Jetpack Compose
- show a tooltip with an arrow pointing to an anchor view

## When to choose
- you need polished, animated tooltips or coach marks on Android
- your project mixes Android Views and Jetpack Compose
- you want lifecycle-aware tooltips with persistence (show once) out of the box

## When to avoid
- you need tooltips on non-Android platforms like iOS or web
- you only need simple static text hints that the platform's built-in Toast or contentDescription already covers

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: mobile-development, android-tools, frontend
- platform: jvm
- tags: tooltip, jetpack-compose, popup, dsl, android-ui, onboarding, android

## Member repositories
- skydoves/Balloon (main) score 93

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:31.848404+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:24:12.688099+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/skydoves/Balloon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:31.848404+00:00, sha 86c0d2f8b538)
  - homepage: https://skydoves.github.io/Balloon/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:17:20.672809+00:00, sha 582e85224189)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.