Overlay image to make tutorial in Android app

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rds picture rds · Aug 27, 2012 · Viewed 18k times · Source

In many applications, I have seen that there is a welcome screen or tutorial that explains how the application works by overlaying explanations on top of the activity. For instance, in Android itself, the welcome screen with "Make yourself home".

I would like to know what techniques can be used for that.

Edit: screenshot of "make yourself home enter image description here enter image description here

Answer

Snicolas picture Snicolas · Sep 23, 2012

There are now 3 alternatives for displaying some tutorial of an activity :

The first one being the best of the 3.

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