On Jul 19, 12:02 pm, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > "You can issue messages to a user but you can't make them read." > > -John Coryat >
My experience has mirrored John's, both on Android and Windows Mobile. For the most part, those users aren't contacting me, though, just leaving negative comments. I will mention that both IPhone and Windows Mobile have visible indications of a menu on the screen, where in Android it's very invisible till you find it (I don't know about Blackberry). So there could be people who have experience with smartphones, just different ones. Still, when they can't find the menu for the life of them, you wonder if you got to be the very first app on their phone - or they can't find menus in any of the others, including the system apps. As I refine it, I'm seeing more of a trend to short prompts rather than help. Unfortunately, that means more tight integration with development - you are changing the workflow and adding dialogs just to explain more things as they happen. You can't just hire someone to write some html pages and throw them in. As an example, a user has to make at least one choice, preferably two, to get going on my app. I've tried prompting him to go to the menu and make the choice. More desperate, I instead prompt and then show the dialog for the choice. I'm sure in the next wave, I'll get complaints that they can't change the choice, because they still haven't found the menu. Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
