What I do in one of my apps (see middle screenshot) https://market.android.com/details?id=de.stephanwiesner.fotocommunity
is that I display a popup that contains a custom dialog displaying an image. Sitze set to just fit the picture. In my case it can be zoomed and panned, but it could easily include swipe detection and not be movable. Just thinking about it, I believe that is exactly what I will do to include a first-start-tour-of-the-app .-) What you can also see in the screenshot is that there are two menu bars. The user can show/hide them with a tap. In your case this could be a navigation bar to make sure that the user can skip the tutorial or whatever you want him to be able... Greetings from Lucerne, Stephan Wiesner On 17 Jan., 04:55, Kookamonga <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent, SurfaceView, just learned something new. Thanks, I'll have > a look. > > On Jan 16, 10:48 pm, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Nonsense, you can also have something like a surfaceview that displays > > the picture, and also does dynamic drawing of the cute indicator > > button :-) > > > kris > > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Kookamonga <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yup, I thought of that... This is why I initially suggested it was > > > just an ImageView that was listening for gestures to move between > > > successive ImageViews. That would work. But the only way I can think > > > of getting the nice page indicator at the bottom would be to hardcode > > > it as part of the image in the ImageView. And obviously, this is less > > > than desirable: adding a page to the tutorial means re-doing every > > > page to update the page indicator, etc. I thought maybe there was > > > something I hadn't come across in my Googling for the answer. > > > > On Jan 16, 10:30 pm, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > >> Honestly, they might just be screenshots arranged in a custom view > > >> that does that cute scrolling thing... > > > >> kris > > > >> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Kookamonga <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > Yes, I will try and find an example and look at the source. > > > >> > In the meantime, just so we're clear, I've uploaded images for the > > >> > first two pages of the tutorial: > > > >> >http://tinypic.com/r/eh19n8/5 > > >> >http://tinypic.com/r/35m2v0k/5 > > > >> > Nice, eh? > > > >> > On Jan 16, 10:02 pm, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> > > >> > wrote: > > >> >> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Kookamonga <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >> > OK, thanks Kris. I was looking to find out whether there was a > > >> >> > special > > >> >> > view that did this sort of thing. Appears not to be the case. And > > >> >> > yeah, I can figure out other ways to get the same effect. > > > >> >> Not to say that it's not *possible* to write a fancy view that embeds > > >> >> other views and adds some niceties to do demo stuff, I'm sure it's > > >> >> possible to write such a view, it's just not out there on the Android > > >> >> platform. But ultimately this might be what a few of those apps use. > > >> >> Perhaps you can find an example app, then check out it's source? > > > >> >> kris > > > >> > -- > > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > >> > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > >> > To post to this group, send email to > > >> > [email protected] > > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >> > [email protected] > > >> > For more options, visit this group at > > >> >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
