Material-components-android: Feature request - Add speed dial feature to floating action button

[eo]

As stated on material design guidelines, the floating action button can fling out related actions upon press. There are many third-party libraries to achieve this. This feature would be nice to have without using any third-party libraries.

Related actions can be populated using a menu resource file as in bottom navigation view.

A floating action button flinging out related actions:

[jestelle]

We actually find this particular speed-dial pattern is far overused in Material Design apps, and we'd like to encourage folks to adopt better patterns for their particular use case.

See the transitions suggested here:
https://material.io/guidelines/components/buttons-floating-action-button.html#buttons-floating-action-button-transitions

We have some in-progress implementations of these transitions we'll be moving to this library as soon as we're able.

[aried3r]

Hey @jestelle, I just found this issue and I believe the current link should be https://material.io/design/components/buttons-floating-action-button.html#types-of-transitions.

Since it's been 2.5 years and speed dials are still in the guides I was wondering if you and your time still encourage other patterns for this, and if so, which ones? :)

[markymark1988]

I am wondering the same thing as @aried3r.

[aalloul]

+1 to have this supported by Material Components, if possible :)

[AndroidDeveloperLB]

I guess that by "better patterns for their particular use case", they mean the one below "Transform into a menu with the related actions" ( because their link shows speed-dial too).

Meaning transition to card.:

https://kstatic.googleusercontent.com/files/8f9b57829c943c97be7c4b2485cf678f041dfe7c7ef523cfb2e97f1aeee21431f83d98cc07befeeed904fabb258298e3a7ac95f9da5d3da7a4adcff658cea851

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