Tutorial first time you enter into an app?

Question

I'm programming an app using android studio. I want to know in which way I can do a tutorial that users will see only the first time that use the app. Tutorial like image or screenshoots

Can someone help me? Thanks

Answer 1

I encountered this thread while looking for a solution for running a tutorial only at the first time (as rbaleksandar suggested), so in case it will be helpful for someone someday, here's a template of a solution that works for me (using the SharedPreferences API):

@Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        String tutorialKey = "SOME_KEY";
        Boolean firstTime = getPreferences(MODE_PRIVATE).getBoolean(tutorialKey, true);
        if (firstTime) {
            runTutorial(); // here you do what you want to do - an activity tutorial in my case
            getPreferences(MODE_PRIVATE).edit().putBoolean(tutorialKey, false).apply();
        }
    }

EDIT - BONUS - If you're into app tutorial - I'm messing now with the ShowcaseView library (which is amazing - try it out). Apparently they have some shortcut for that issue using a method called singleShot(long) - its input is a key for the SharedPreferences, and it does the exact same thing - runs only in the first activation. Example of usage (taken from here):

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_single_shot);

        Target viewTarget = new ViewTarget(R.id.button, this);
        new ShowcaseView.Builder(this)
                .setTarget(viewTarget)
                .setContentTitle(R.string.title_single_shot)
                .setContentText(R.string.R_string_desc_single_shot)
                .singleShot(42)
                .build();
    }