Option to have arrow point at (center of) anchor view about balloon HOT 11 CLOSED

Cool. I tried 1.1.8-alpha02 and it seems to fix my issue 👍. Thanks

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This also worked for me !

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Thanks. I will try it out in my app once I have the time 👍

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This would be fantastic to have! 👍

I just wanted to add - the arrow should also switch
sides if the tooltip is rendered above or below the
anchor view, depending on the available space.

So for example, if the tooltip is shown by using
showAlignBottom(..) but it's actually shown
on top of the view due to the space constraints,
the arrow should switch as well.

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This would be great. I'm not using the arrows at all currently because the place they point to is inconsistent.

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Hi guys!
I think the suggestion looks good for positioning easier based on an anchor, so I implemented a ArrowConstraints functionality.

/**
 * ArrowConstraints determines the constraints of the arrow positioning.
 * [ArrowConstraints.ALIGN_BALLOON]: aligning based on the balloon.
 * [ArrowConstraints.ALIGN_ANCHOR]: aligning based on the anchor.
 */
enum class ArrowConstraints {
  /** Aligning based on the balloon. */
  ALIGN_BALLOON,

  /** Aligning based on the anchor. */
  ALIGN_ANCHOR
}

You can use like below:

setArrowConstraints(ArrowConstraints.ALIGN_ANCHOR)

Please check out the new feature works well in your environments. The version is 1.1.8-alpha01.

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I tried out 1.1.8-alpha01. The arrow placement seems to work fine in general, but I'm encountering a problem when trying to have the arrow point at a menu item in a toolbar (I'm using androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar from androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.2.0-alpha01). In that case, the arrow position is off.

Here's a screenshot (I'm trying to have the arrow point at the item with the red background):

This is the code I use to show the balloon:

val menuItemView = toolbar.findViewById<View>(R.id.my_menu_item)
Balloon.Builder(context)
    .setText("Click here to get started. It's gonna be fun!")
    .setPadding(16)
    .setTextSize(14f)
    .setArrowConstraints(ArrowConstraints.ALIGN_ANCHOR)
    .setArrowOrientation(ArrowOrientation.TOP)
    .build()
    .showAlignBottom(menuItemView)

This might just be an oddness caused by the toolbar view.

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@Waboodoo
Hi, thanks for checking it!
I just released another version 1.1.8-alpha02, the problem seems that the actual position of x should be calculated on the basis of the screen. I will also keep debugging use this new version :)

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@Waboodoo
This issue is included in the new version 1.1.8 !
Thank you for your issue :)

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I'm experiencing this toolbar offset problem with version 1.1.9.

From within my fragment, I get hold of the anchor view like this:

final View button = requireActivity().findViewById(R.id.menu_item_settings);        

Could it be that I call setSupportActionBar(myToolbar) in my activity?

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If anyone is wondering, It's ArrowPositionRules in the latest versions.

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