[guardian-dev] What do you want to do on your Android today?

[Abel Luck]

Nathan of Guardian:
> On 06/03/2013 08:38 AM, Abel Luck wrote:
>> This started out as a simple iteration on Mark's tutorial code, but
>> turned into a full-blown weekend project.
>>
>> Check it out: http://outcomedubious.im/tutorial-db/
> That was an inspired weekend - seriously brilliant! I am eager to fill
> this out with all the other tutorials, some of which are underway.
> 
> Now, here is the second challenge - create a version of the
> framework/skeleton that renders well on a smartphone. The tutorial
> screenshots would be just the app screen w/o the device chrome around
> it, and the tutorial click through messages would overlay the screens.
> Might be good to use JQueryMobile or some other HTML5 mobile framework
> as a basis, but may not be necessary.
> 

I think this would be awesome, but I'm not sure it would work..

50% of the tutorial is text. Where would the text go if the screenshoot
filled the screen?

> See the "Blackberry on Android" glimpse demo for some ideas as
> well:http://blackberry.com/glimpse
> 
Ok, so this is awesome.

But I don't think it would work well as a tutorial..

A tutorial is useful because the user follows along, and learns as they go.

Rather than trying to make these tutorials work on a device, like you
described, we should implement an interactive tutorial INTO the apps!

~abel