TooltipCompat

Artifact: androidx.appcompat:appcompat

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Added in 1.1.0

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Kotlin |Java

class TooltipCompat

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Helper class used to emulate the behavior of setTooltipText prior to API level 26.

Summary

Public functions
java-static Unit	setTooltipText(view: View, tooltipText: CharSequence?) Sets the tooltip text for the view.

Public functions

setTooltipText

Added in 1.1.0

java-static fun setTooltipText(view: View, tooltipText: CharSequence?): Unit

Sets the tooltip text for the view.

On API 26 and later, this method calls through to setTooltipText.

Prior to API 26, this method sets or clears (when tooltipText is null) the view's OnLongClickListener and OnHoverListener. A tooltip-like sub-panel will be created on long-click or mouse hover.

Parameters
view: View	the view on which to set the tooltip text
tooltipText: CharSequence?	the tooltip text