A step-by-step walkthrough tooltip library for React Native apps to guide users through UI features.
React Native Copilot is a library for adding interactive, step-by-step walkthroughs and tooltips to React Native applications. It helps developers create onboarding experiences that guide users through app features by highlighting UI elements with explanatory tooltips. The library solves the problem of user confusion in complex apps by providing clear, engaging tutorials.
React Native developers building mobile apps that require user onboarding, feature discovery, or interactive tutorials. It's particularly useful for apps with complex interfaces where guiding users is essential.
Developers choose React Native Copilot for its extensive customization options, smooth animations, and simple integration. It offers flexibility in overlay types, UI styling, and navigation control while being lightweight and easy to implement compared to building custom walkthrough solutions.
Step-by-step walkthrough tooltip for your react native app
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Offers both SVG-based smooth animations and View-based overlays, allowing developers to choose based on performance needs and device compatibility, as detailed in the 'Overlays and animation' section.
Supports custom tooltip components, styles, arrow colors, and SVG mask paths, enabling full design control to match app aesthetics, with examples provided for tooltipStyle and svgMaskPath.
Emits start, stop, and stepChange events using mitt, making it easy to synchronize walkthroughs with app state and logic, as shown in the 'Listening to the events' section.
Allows passing a ScrollView reference to the start() function, ensuring tooltips work correctly within scrollable areas without manual positioning, specifically covered in 'Usage inside a ScrollView'.
Requires wrapping each target element with CopilotStep and providing unique name, order, and text props, which can clutter component code and add complexity to simple implementations.
For smooth animations, react-native-svg must be installed and linked; otherwise, the fallback View overlay may be sluggish on some devices, as admitted in the README's overlay section.
The library still supports but deprecates the old HOC method in v3, which could cause confusion and require migration efforts for existing codebases, as noted in the 'Usage' section.