In App Tutorial for iPhone

Question

Hello, guys.

Do you know some resource (url, pdf, ...) that can help me to do a in app tutorial? Let me explain better: the first time that the user uses my iPhone app, I want to put bubble messages pointing/describing each part of the interface.

The problem is that I don't know where to start. :D

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

One quick way of doing this would be to create a single view that contains a UILabel (and any other controls you might like), that has an NSString property that allows you to set which text is displayed in the body (I'm sure you get the idea).

You could then present the view with a UIPopoverController

Making use of Presenting From a Specific Rect for general UI Components and Presenting From a Bar Button Item where applicable.

The nice thing about UIPopoverController is that it will automatically point to the rect you provide, so will be a kind of 'hovering bubble'. It will also dismiss when the user taps outside of it; however, you can't have more than one on screen at once.