Question

I want to display the ToolTip(QuickAction View) when I am moving my cursor on the view. Can any one please give me the simple example for it? tooltip will only contains the text value.

Answer 1

Android supports “tool-tip” only for ActionBar buttons from Android 4.0 on. But as Jaguar already mentioned, tool-tips in Android doesnt make so much sense, since there is no concept of hovering.

From Android 4.0 the normal title text (that you set in the xml file or via code) will appear if you make a long click on the button. But if enough space is on the screen, it will be visible in the ActionBar all the time beside the icon.

If you want to have it for a custom view, you need to implement it yourself by adding a LongClickListener to your view, and show a Toast when pressed long:

view.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener() {
    public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
        Toast.makeText(v.getContext(), "My tool-tip text", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        return true;
    }
}

Of course you should use a resource for the string, and not the hard coded string.