Re: Best practice when opening a Master-Detail app with no data in it yet
Re: Best practice when opening a Master-Detail app with no data in it yet
- Subject: Re: Best practice when opening a Master-Detail app with no data in it yet
- From: Evadne Wu <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:18:00 -0700
Seed data is always a good idea. A “tap here to make a new item” approach would also work in some cases.
Best,
Eve
On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:30 AM, "Richard Altenburg (Brainchild)" <email@hidden> wrote:
> I am creating a master-detail app for both iPad and iPhone families of devices. For the iPad I use a split view controller and for the iPhone I use the standard drill-down interface (a table view when selected pushes the detail view onto the screen).
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> Now it feels kind of awkward when a user first uses the app, because there is no data in the table view yet. In landscape orientation you can press the + button to add an item and select it to go into detail, but on the iPad in portrait orientation you fall into an empty detail view by default.
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> Is it considered good practice to create an initial item on start-up (only when there is no user created item already) and programmatically select that item in the table view and go into its detail view immediately? That way the user can immediately see what an example item looks like in detail and can start tinkering it.
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> I'd like to hear ideas, and also invite you to send me to another list if this question is not in the proper list here. Thanks!
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> [[[Brainchild alloc] initWithName:@"Richard Altenburg"] saysBestRegards];
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