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Randy Tong wrote:You can find lot of useful tutorials/libraries here:
app tour library
Tim Moores wrote:Sure you can implement it yourself, just like the authors of those libraries could. But why would you?
Tim Moores wrote:The link Randy posted leads to https://android-arsenal.com/tag/198, amongst other places - lots and lots of options. Searching Github for "showcase" or "app tour" or some such phrase will probably find even more.
Tim Moores wrote:Those sound like pretty basic requirements for such a functionality. I'm certain there are libraries out there that do this, or something very similar. Can't recommend one myself, though. If you've looked at a couple dozen libraries and none does exactly what you want, maybe that is a sign that you intend something rather unusual, and might be better off going with something others have implemented as well. Just my 2 cents.
Tim Moores wrote:Not sure what you mean by "other hack". I've never felt the need (or had the inclination) to implement an app tour, but if I did, I'd be sure to pick an existing solution instead of rolling my own.
What if your product managers tells you to implement his idea only.By hook or crook.
OK I will try this.So there is no other hack for doing it.Tim Moores wrote:
What if your product managers tells you to implement his idea only.By hook or crook.
Then you need to explain to him/her that rolling your own will take a lot longer than using an existing library. In other words: PM's idea = 1 week of work (because you need to implement it yourself) vs. using an existing library = 1 day of work. If the PM is allowed to allocate your time like that, then you may have to go with it. But normally, your actual manager is in charge of allocating your time, and he/she may take a different view of that.
Tim Moores wrote:As I said, I'm not sure what you mean by "hack". You can certainly take an existing library and change it so it does exactly what you want to accomplish. That's the beauty of open source, after all.
Tim Moores wrote:That library seems to have a lot of options you could try out, like playing around with the length of the animation, or using empty animations, or none at all. I'm sure you can figure it out.
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