Re: Best practice when opening a Master-Detail app with no data in it yet

2012-09-20 Thread Richard Altenburg (Brainchild)
Op 20 sep. 2012, om 11:29 heeft Uli Kusterer het volgende geschreven: > You're letting a template file made by a programmer that illustrates how to > code decide what features your user interface will present? :-o No, but I was just wondering that if I want a better approach what would be con

Re: Best practice when opening a Master-Detail app with no data in it yet

2012-09-20 Thread Uli Kusterer
On 20.09.2012, at 08:49, Richard Altenburg (Brainchild) wrote: > The Add button not being there in portrait mode on iPad is how the default > Master-Detail template works. You're letting a template file made by a programmer that illustrates how to code decide what features your user interface

Re: Best practice when opening a Master-Detail app with no data in it yet

2012-09-19 Thread Richard Altenburg (Brainchild)
Op 19 sep. 2012, om 22:31 heeft Uli Kusterer het volgende geschreven: > Is the item actually useful to the user beyond being there? Or would the user > have to delete the item and create a sensible one to actually use your app? The item is like a demo of what an item could look like, and the u

Re: Best practice when opening a Master-Detail app with no data in it yet

2012-09-19 Thread Richard Altenburg (Brainchild)
I might do both, although I can not do a "tap here" instruction if the Add button is not visible at launch. Have to create another way for that initial item to become alive. Thanks for your thoughts. [[[Brainchild alloc] initWithName:@"Richard Altenburg"] saysBestRegards]; Op 19 sep. 2012, om

Re: Best practice when opening a Master-Detail app with no data in it yet

2012-09-19 Thread Uli Kusterer
On 19.09.2012, at 20:30, Richard Altenburg (Brainchild) wrote: > Is it considered good practice to create an initial item on start-up (only > when there is no user created item already) and programmatically select that > item in the table view and go into its detail view immediately? That way t

Re: Best practice when opening a Master-Detail app with no data in it yet

2012-09-19 Thread Evadne Wu
Seed data is always a good idea. A “tap here to make a new item” approach would also work in some cases. Best, Eve On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:30 AM, "Richard Altenburg (Brainchild)" wrote: > I am creating a master-detail app for both iPad and iPhone families of > devices. For the iPad I use a s

Best practice when opening a Master-Detail app with no data in it yet

2012-09-19 Thread Richard Altenburg (Brainchild)
I am creating a master-detail app for both iPad and iPhone families of devices. For the iPad I use a split view controller and for the iPhone I use the standard drill-down interface (a table view when selected pushes the detail view onto the screen). Now it feels kind of awkward when a user fir