Better onboarding experience

[neoneye]

@axello raised this concern:

The app starts in the browser mode, as if you are an experienced user. Would perhaps be nicer to start with a blank drawing for starters, or have a little onboarding which points to the big + sign?

That is indeed a thing that is missing.

I wonder how to do it.

The UIDocumentBrowserViewController is a blackbox made by Apple, that indie developers can't make changes to.

The UIDocumentBrowserViewController must be the root view controller, so I cannot present another onboarding view controller before it.

I can write a better explanation inside the App Store with a video+screenshots that shows how to get started.

[axello]

Weird, there must be a way, as other apps do it differently.

Can you not show an overlay on top of the UIDocumentBrowserViewController?

Hmm, Omnigraffle shows a "What's new overlay" on top of the UIDocumentBrowserViewController

It's difficult to find good examples, as most apps I use have documents of course.

Okay, when I leave and quit Omnigraffle in a drawing, and restart the app (after kill), it goes immediately to the drawing; thus passing by the UIDocumentBrowserViewController Can you not simply create an empty document and push that on the stack?

Axel

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Op 28 mei 2020 om 15:49 heeft Simon Strandgaard [email protected] het volgende geschreven:

 @axello raised this concern:

The app starts in the browser mode, as if you are an experienced user. Would perhaps be nicer to start with a blank drawing for starters, or have a little onboarding which points to the big + sign?

That is indeed a thing that is missing.

I wonder how to do it.

The UIDocumentBrowserViewController is a blackbox made by Apple, that indie developers can't make changes to.

The UIDocumentBrowserViewController must be the root view controller, so I cannot present another onboarding view controller before it.

I can write a better explanation inside the App Store with a video+screenshots that shows how to get started.

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[neoneye]

I tried out OmniGraffle and studied how they managed to do it. The OmniGraffle app is presenting a view controller modally on top of the document browser. I can do the same in TriangleDraw.

I wonder what other document browser apps are out there. I have tried a handful of these:

• Jayson
• Shade

I wonder how to do it?