page.title=Introducing First-time Users to Your App page.tags=tv,onboarding,OnboardingFragment page.keywords=tv,onboarding,OnboardingFragment helpoutsWidget=true trainingnavtop=true @jd:body <div id="tb-wrapper"> <div id="tb"> <h2>This lesson teaches you to</h2> <ol> <li><a href="#addFragment">Add an OnboardingFragment</a></li> <li><a href="#pageContent">Add OnboardingFragment Pages</a></li> <li><a href="#logoScreen">Add an Initial Logo Screen</a></li> <li><a href="#pageAnimations">Customize Page Animations</a></li> <li><a href="#themes">Customize Themes</a></li> </ol> <h2>Try it out</h2> <ul> <li><a class="external-link" href="https://github.com/googlesamples/androidtv-Leanback">Android Leanback sample app</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <p> To show a first-time user how to get the most from your app, present onboarding information at app startup. Here are some examples of onboarding information: </p> <ul> <li>Present detailed information on which channels are available when a user first accesses a channel app.</li> <li>Call attention to noteworthy features in your app.</li> <li>Illustrate any required or recommended steps that users should take when using the app for the first time.</li> </ul> <p>The <a href= "{@docRoot}tools/support-library/features.html#v17-leanback">v17 Leanback support library</a> provides the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} class for presenting first-time user information. This lesson describes how to use the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} class to present introductory information that is shown when the app launches for the first time. {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} uses TV UI best practices to present the information in a way that matches TV UI styles, and is easy to navigate on TV devices.</p> <img src="{@docRoot}images/training/tv/playback/onboarding-fragment.png" srcset="{@docRoot}images/training/tv/playback/onboarding-fragment.png 1x, {@docRoot}images/training/tv/playback/onboarding-fragment_2x.png 2x" /> <p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 1.</strong> An example OnboardingFragment.</p> <p>Your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} should not contain UI elements that require user input, such as buttons and fields. Similarly, it should not be used as a UI element for a task the user will do regularly. If you need to present a multi-page UI that requires user input, consider using a {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.GuidedStepFragment}.</p> <h2 id="addFragment">Add an OnboardingFragment</h2> <p>To add an {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} to your app, implement a class that extends the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} class. Add this fragment to an activity, either via the activity's layout XML, or programmatically. Make sure the activity or fragment is using a theme derived from {@link android.support.v17.leanback.R.style#Theme_Leanback_Onboarding}, as described in <a href="#themes">Customize Themes</a>.</p> <p>In the {@link android.app.Activity#onCreate onCreate()} method of your app's main activity, call {@link android.app.Activity#startActivity startActivity()} with an {@link android.content.Intent} that points to your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment OnboardingFragment's} parent activity. This ensures that your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} appears as soon as your app starts.<p> <p>To ensure that the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} only appears the first time that the user starts your app, use a {@link android.content.SharedPreferences} object to track whether the user has already viewed the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment}. Define a boolean value that changes to true when the user finishes viewing the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment}. Check this value in your main activity’s {@link android.app.Activity#onCreate onCreate()}, and only start the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} parent activity if the value is false. The following example shows an override of {@link android.app.Activity#onCreate onCreate()} that checks for a {@link android.content.SharedPreferences} value and, if not set to true, calls {@link android.app.Activity#startActivity startActivity()} to show the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment}:</p> <pre> @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); SharedPreferences sharedPreferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this); // Check if we need to display our OnboardingFragment if (!sharedPreferences.getBoolean( MyOnboardingFragment.COMPLETED_ONBOARDING_PREF_NAME, false)) { // The user hasn't seen the OnboardingFragment yet, so show it startActivity(new Intent(this, OnboardingActivity.class)); } } </pre> <p>After the user views the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment}, mark it as viewed using the {@link android.content.SharedPreferences} object. To do this, in your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment}, override {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#onFinishFragment onFinishFragment()} and set your {@link android.content.SharedPreferences} value to true, as shown in the following example: <pre> @Override protected void onFinishFragment() { super.onFinishFragment(); // User has seen OnboardingFragment, so mark our SharedPreferences // flag as completed so that we don't show our OnboardingFragment // the next time the user launches the app. SharedPreferences.Editor sharedPreferencesEditor = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(getContext()).edit(); sharedPreferencesEditor.putBoolean( COMPLETED_ONBOARDING_PREF_NAME, true); sharedPreferencesEditor.apply(); } </pre> <h2 id="pageContent">Add OnboardingFragment Pages</h2> <p>After you add your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment}, you need to define the onboarding pages. An {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} displays content in a series of ordered pages. Each page can have a title, description, and several sub-views that can contain images or animations.</p> <img src="{@docRoot}images/training/tv/playback/onboarding-fragment-diagram.png" /><p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 2.</strong> OnboardingFragment page elements. </p> <p>Figure 2 shows an example page with callouts marking customizable page elements that your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} can provide. The page elements are:</p> <ol> <li>The page title.</li> <li>The page description.</li> <li>The page content view, in this case a simple green checkmark in a grey box. This view is optional. Use this view to illustrate page details such as a screenshot that highlights the app feature that the page describes.</li> <li>The page background view, in this case a simple blue gradient. This view always renders behind other views on the page. This view is optional.</li> <li>The page foreground view, in this case a logo. This view always renders in front of all other views on the page. This view is optional.</li> </ol> <p>Initialize page information when your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} is first created or attached to the parent activity, as the system requests page information when it creates the fragment's view. You can initialize page information in your class constructor or in an override of {@link android.app.Fragment#onAttach onAttach()}.</p> <p>Override each of the following methods that provide page information to the system:</p> <ul> <li>{@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#getPageCount getPageCount()} returns the number of pages in your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment}.</li> <li>{@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#getPageTitle getPageTitle()} returns the title for the requested page number.</li> <li>{@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#getPageDescription getPagedescription()} returns the description for the requested page number.</li> </ul> <p>Override each of the following methods to provide optional sub-views used to display images or animations:</p> <ul> <li>{@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#onCreateBackgroundView onCreateBackgroundView()} returns a {@link android.view.View} that you create to act as the background view, or null if no background view is needed. <li>{@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#onCreateContentView onCreateContentView()} returns a {@link android.view.View} that you create to act as the content view, or null if no content view is needed. <li>{@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#onCreateForegroundView onCreateForegroundView()} returns a {@link android.view.View} that you create to act as the foreground view, or null if no foreground view is needed. </ul> <p>The system adds the {@link android.view.View} that you create to the page layout. The following example overrides {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#onCreateContentView onCreateContentView()} and returns an {@link android.widget.ImageView}:</p> <pre> private ImageView mContentView; ... @Override protected View onCreateContentView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container) { mContentView = new ImageView(getContext()); mContentView.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_INSIDE); mContentView.setImageResource(R.drawable.onboarding_content_view); mContentView.setPadding(0, 32, 0, 32); return mContentView; } </pre> <h2 id="logoScreen">Add an Initial Logo Screen</h2> <p>Your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} can start with an optional logo screen that introduces your app. If you want to display a {@link android.graphics.drawable.Drawable} as your logo screen, in your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment OnboardingFragment's} {@link android.app.Fragment#onCreate onCreate()} method, call {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#setLogoResourceId setLogoResourceId()} with the ID of your {@link android.graphics.drawable.Drawable}. The system will fade in and briefly display this {@link android.graphics.drawable.Drawable}, and then fade out the {@link android.graphics.drawable.Drawable} before displaying the first page of your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment}.</p> <p>If you want to provide a custom animation for your logo screen, instead of calling {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#setLogoResourceId setLogoResourceId()}, override {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#onCreateLogoAnimation onCreateLogoAnimation()} and return an {@link android.animation.Animator} object that renders your custom animation, as shown in the following example: </p> <pre> @Override public Animator onCreateLogoAnimation() { return AnimatorInflater.loadAnimator(mContext, R.animator.onboarding_logo_screen_animation); } </pre> <h2 id="pageAnimations">Customize Page Animations</h2> <p>The system uses default animations when displaying the first page of your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} and when the user navigates to a different page. You can customize these animations by overriding methods in your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment}.</p> <p>To customize the animation that appears on your first page, override {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#onCreateEnterAnimation onCreateEnterAnimation()} and return an {@link android.animation.Animator}. The following example creates an {@link android.animation.Animator} that scales the content view horizontally:</p> <pre> @Override protected Animator onCreateEnterAnimation() { Animator startAnimator = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(mContentView, View.SCALE_X, 0.2f, 1.0f).setDuration(ANIMATION_DURATION); return startAnimator; } </pre> <p>To customize the animation used when the user navigates to a different page, override {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#onPageChanged onPageChanged()}. In your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#onPageChanged onPageChanged()} method, create {@link android.animation.Animator Animators} that remove the previous page and display the next page, add these to an {@link android.animation.AnimatorSet}, and play the set. The following example uses a fade-out animation to remove the previous page, updates the content view image, and uses a fade-in animation to display the next page:</p> <pre> @Override protected void onPageChanged(final int newPage, int previousPage) { // Create a fade-out animation used to fade out previousPage and, once // done, swaps the contentView image with the next page's image. Animator fadeOut = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(mContentView, View.ALPHA, 1.0f, 0.0f).setDuration(ANIMATION_DURATION); fadeOut.addListener(new AnimatorListenerAdapter() { @Override public void onAnimationEnd(Animator animation) { mContentView.setImageResource(pageImages[newPage]); } }); // Create a fade-in animation used to fade in nextPage Animator fadeIn = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(mContentView, View.ALPHA, 0.0f, 1.0f).setDuration(ANIMATION_DURATION); // Create AnimatorSet with our fade-out and fade-in animators, and start it AnimatorSet set = new AnimatorSet(); set.playSequentially(fadeOut, fadeIn); set.start(); } </pre> <p>For more details about how to create {@link android.animation.Animator Animators} and {@link android.animation.AnimatorSet AnimatorSets}, see <a href="https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/prop-animation.html"> Property Animations</a>.</p> <h2 id="themes">Customize Themes</h2> <p>Any {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} implementation must use either the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.R.style#Theme_Leanback_Onboarding} theme or a theme that inherits from {@link android.support.v17.leanback.R.style#Theme_Leanback_Onboarding}. Set the theme for your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} by doing one of the following:</p> <ul> <li>Set the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment OnboardingFragment's} parent activity to use the desired theme. The following example shows how to set an activity to use {@link android.support.v17.leanback.R.style#Theme_Leanback_Onboarding} in the app manifest: <pre> <activity android:name=".OnboardingActivity" android:enabled="true" android:exported="true" android:theme="@style/Theme.Leanback.Onboarding"> </activity> </pre> </li> <li> Set the theme in the parent activity by using the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.R.styleable#LeanbackOnboardingTheme_onboardingTheme} attribute in a custom activity theme. Point this attribute to another custom theme that only the {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} objects in your activity use. Use this approach if your activity already uses a custom theme and you don't want to apply {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} styles to other views in the activity. </li> <li>Override {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#onProvideTheme onProvideTheme()} and return the desired theme. Use this approach if multiple activities use your {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment} or if the parent activity can't use the desired theme. The following example overrides {@link android.support.v17.leanback.app.OnboardingFragment#onProvideTheme onProvideTheme()} and returns {@link android.support.v17.leanback.R.style#Theme_Leanback_Onboarding}: <pre> @Override public int onProvideTheme() { return R.style.Theme_Leanback_Onboarding; } </pre> </li> </ul>