Add forced tour of the app upon first startup

[jidanni]

Okay, it is our second day using the app. We want to report a bug. Or we want to just look at some help menu. Well, we look down at the bottom of the screen to find the Help button or the About button but there is none.

We do notice the coffee cup button though. I think that is not as important as a Help button. Or an About button.
Oh I see it is an amenity button (I thought it was buy a cup of coffee button for developer support.)

We end up having to do a big search on Google to figure out where the report this bug to.

For the help button you could use a question mark.

Be sure all the documentation that is on the web is also accessible offline inside the app please. And also be sure to include a GitHub link inside the app, even if one can figure it out probably on Google Play.

Here we have click the home button or at least the one with a house picture on it. We assumed it would take us to the apps control panel or something but instead it apparently has a different meaning.

It apparently is equivalent to the circular bullseye GPS button in Google maps or on the Open Street map website where there is a triangle that takes you to your current location.

Okay I long pressed on the house symbol, and it turns out to be what should be better expressed with a door symbol just like the logo of the app itself.

Okay I finally noticed the three bar menu, there at the top of the image that I posted on #834.

I guess it wasn't as noticeable as everything else on the screen. Okay I'll have a look and get back to you tomorrow next time. Thanks.

One thing you could do in the meantime, is when one first starts the app, have those a obligatory tours of the app. Could start out with an arrow pointing at the top left of the screen saying this is where the settings are. And then another arrow after that explaining what this button means, and that button means etc.
Yes it seems old-fashioned but it sure would help some old timers like me!

[Zverik]

Hmm thank you, I wonder how I can make it more prominent. The help and all the links are under the settings button with horizontal lines in the top left corner. Maybe I should offer new users to go there first...

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[mnalis]

Hmm thank you, I wonder how I can make it more prominent

Removing transparency from hamburger button might make it more visible; but also probably more ugly. 🤷

when one first starts the app, have those a obligatory tours of the app

That is a good idea, but:

• start it automatically on first install of the app, but do not make it obligatory (i.e. have a "skip" option. There are users that are quite annoyed when tutorials cannot be skipped)
• it is not easy to make such a tutorial that is useful, yet not overly long. You might want to look at e.g. StreetComplete for inspiration, there are two tours (one on fresh install, and one when firstly pressing overlay button [second on the right on top] which is expected to be much less used). I might be biased, but it seems to strike the balance OK (then again, StreetComplete has simpler UI and thus less to explain, as each quest that pops up has an explanation by itself as a part of UI)