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: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:29:21 +0200
On 20.09.2012, at 08:49, Richard Altenburg (Brainchild) <email@hidden> wrote:
> The Add button not being there in portrait mode on iPad is how the default Master-Detail template works.
You're letting a template file made by a programmer that illustrates how to code decide what features your user interface will present? :-o
> In my app, the user only adds a few items to the list, it is not a high volume data tool. I have seen apps like this that do not even save the input at all, they just print or share their content and make the user start over again on a next run. I don't want to do that, so that is why I chose the Master-Detail template.
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> I could come up with an empty Detail view and if I notice that, I could prompt the user if he/she wants to see what an example item would look like? Or go for the "tap here to make your very first item" solution. I will probably try them both to see what looks nicer.
If you have the space, combine the two: Put a button in the instructions that creates an example item. But I'd still suggest that you *probably* should have the same buttons available in both orientations, even if it's in a popover triggered by a button in the toolbar. Of course, then you'll have to adjust the instructions depending on orientation.
-- Uli Kusterer
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