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

[barbra]

Here is some code that I wrote for app-based tutorials for informacam.

https://github.com/guardianproject/InformaCam/tree/rc1/assets/help

It is already fully mobile responsive design, and based on jquery mobile.
All the content would come from JSON so it can easily translated to
multiple languages and packaged (and we could also very easily make that
dynamic language change within the app, instead of packaged differently for
each language). Images/media would be really easy to embed.

While this assumes a "bulleted list" display of the text, it could really
display anyway that the css was styled. This code is currently set to swipe
left>right, but can be easily reversed; and also easily be set to reverse
dynamically. And it breaks the tutorials into small enough chunks that
there is room on a mobile.

It might be useful to take one of our tutorials and stick in there and see
how it works.


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Mark Belinsky <m at markbelinsky.com> wrote:

> +1 on tutorial inside the apps!
>
> Most of the ones ive seen are text heavy and confusing. A few companies do
> what I think is most helpful, an overlay on top of the existing app. But I
> think testing accounts could be useful for this. We're trying to figure
> this out in ostel with echoand music tests.
>
> For Gibberbot, I'd like to see a test account to sync securely with over
> otr. If there's any available code for Turing tests, we can even make a
> secure chatbot.
>
> ~Sent from my mobile. Please excuse any typos or terseness.
> On Jun 6, 2013 11:07 AM, "Abel Luck" <abel at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>
>> 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
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