EasyIntro, Powerful and Flexible in Creating Intro for Android

What introduction means in mobile applications and how creating good one helps improve projects

Intro is the abbreviation of introduction. Introduction means a thing preliminary to something else, especially an explanatory section at the beginning of a book, report, or speech.

What Are the Benefits of a Good Introduction?

1. When it comes to books, it would help readers’ surface understanding of the content.
2. Its benefits are described below when it comes to mobile applications:

• Never miss users for not understanding the interface
• Grow fast by explaining the idea behind the application
• Increase the convenience in using the application

Introduction Use Cases

These are the most used cases:

• Introduce the idea
• Explain how to interact with the interface
• Sign-up and sign-in forms

EasyIntro focuses on making an advanced and appropriate introduction for Android applications. It’s unimaginable flexible. In other words, you’re free to create anything you want to have at the startup.

The Most Notable Features

• Compatible down to API level 13
• Quick and simple API
• Overlay slides
• Fully support back stack
• Callbacks
• Animations and slide transformers are supported
• Modify configuration on the go
• Supports RTL (i.e. Persian)
• Lock on specific slides
• Incredibly customizable

Overlay Slides

EasyIntro introduced overlay slides to make the way to achieve user-friendly and animated grouped slides simple (e.g. leading the user to a sign-in form from the sign-up one by clicking on a button without creating a new swipable slide).

Include to Project

Add the dependency:

Create an activity, define that into the AndroidManifest.xml, then provide the slides and configure EasyIntro as you want:

Extended fragments from EasyIntroFragment are recommended for more use of EasyIntro:

Keep This in Mind

Anything without usability should be removed. It’s not useful tip only for developing an application but doing so has benefits on everything. I’m not going to go in details, just keep this in mind.

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