Yes, I also wanted a "first-start-tour-of-the-app". A custom dialog is an interesting idea as well. By making it transparent, I can get the "overlay" effect I'm thinking about. Thanks for the tip.
On Jan 17, 12:27 am, Stephan Wiesner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
