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DroidPlanner / Tower

Ground Control Station for Android Devices
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Video tutorials #491

Closed arthurbenemann closed 10 years ago

arthurbenemann commented 10 years ago

Add a "help" menu item, which guides the user to a tutorial/help video on youtube.

The item should be context sensitive (editor screen shows editor videos), and if there is more than one video a dialog should show up.

The implementation is basically done by creating an intent to open a youtube video.

JonoParrott commented 10 years ago

Would it be an idea to have a quick interactive tutorial so the user experiences the program for them self rather than watch someone else do it? Learning by doing rather than watching normally has better outcomes.

The tutorial would have to have a fake a/c though to make use of all the available features and little balloons tips for what the user needs to do to progress the tutorial. For example to create a flight plan:

I'd be willing to come up with a list of tutorials and user steps involved in each one. However my coding skills are lacking so I would need someone to code it all in.

arthurbenemann commented 10 years ago

Its just a lot easier to do the videos, there is no code modifications necessary. On Feb 2, 2014 2:27 AM, "Jonathan Parrott" notifications@github.com wrote:

Would it be an idea to have a quick interactive tutorial so the user experiences the program for them self rather than watch someone else do it? Learning by doing rather than watching normally has better outcomes.

The tutorial would have to have a fake a/c though to make use of all the available features and little balloons tips for what the user needs to do to progress the tutorial. For example to create a flight plan:

  • Balloon over the edit button for user to "click here"
  • Balloon to select predefined locations on map
  • Balloon to select second way point box on bottom of screen
  • Balloon to select loiter
  • etc...

I'd be willing to come up with a list of tutorials and user steps involved in each one. However my coding skills are lacking so I would need someone to code it all in.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/DroidPlanner/droidplanner/issues/491#issuecomment-33891768 .

bbasso commented 10 years ago

@JonoParrott I'm working on a few tutorials that will each be about a minute. I think they'll be about 1 min long each and cover a specific topic--the telemetry screen, basic mission planning, advanced mission planning, etc.

It would be great if we eventually had little animated-gif-like popup videos for explaining simple things like RC calibration.

JonoParrott commented 10 years ago

@bbasso Okay great! If you need any help just let me know

arthurbenemann commented 10 years ago

@JonoParrott Any tutorial you do will probably be added to the app, just make it and upload to github (there is an app called SCR recorder which is great for this).

jason4short commented 10 years ago

Placeholder videos would be great. 3DR is planning on producing professional videos in a studio that we can use. I just don't know exactly when they will be available.

JonoParrott commented 10 years ago

Well if 3DR are going to make videos for droidplanner then there may not be much point in doing videos unless we can do them at a professional quality. Can anyone from 3DR confirm this?

azrin1972 commented 10 years ago

Just a thought, what if instead if using video, we use OpenGL to create the animation? We can change the model (plane, copter, rover etc) quite easily. And with the framework, we can also use for other features such as the virtual flight path, HUD etc in the future.

Azrin Aris

On 12/02/2014, at 0:53, jason4short notifications@github.com wrote:

Placeholder videos would be great. 3DR is planning on producing professional videos in a studio that we can use. I just don't know exactly when they will be available.

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arthurbenemann commented 10 years ago

@azrin1972 The point of using videos is to have a very quick way to do these tutorials, with an app like SCR Recorder you can record and upload in a couple of minutes without even touching a pc.

In the future I think it would be nice to have a "simulator" function, just to cover the basics. But that would take a lot more work from us.

jason4short commented 10 years ago

3DR has a profession video crew/studio in house now, and they are eager to do demo videos. These will be reeeealy high quality!

JonoParrott commented 10 years ago

Oh that sounds excellent! Do they know what needs to be covered? There's not much in the wiki manual for droidplanner. I'd be willing to write up some instructions/tips that they can base their videos off if needed.

jason4short commented 10 years ago

Tips are good! Even rough videos shared over youtube! Jason

On Feb 11, 2014, at 9:04 PM, Jonathan Parrott notifications@github.com wrote:

Oh that sounds excellent! Do they know what needs to be covered? There's not much in the wiki manual for droidplanner. I'd be willing to write up some instructions/tips that they can base their videos off if needed.

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JonoParrott commented 10 years ago

@bbasso Did you have any starting points for this at all? We could collaborate on ideas

JonoParrott commented 10 years ago

How did you guys go with the videos?

I meant to write on this issue a long time ago but kept getting distracted. I swear I saw a long list of videos already created for Droidplanner 2 which would be a great starting point. But for the life of me I cannot find that page again!

arthurbenemann commented 10 years ago

We still don't have any tutorial videos done. If you want to do it, please go ahead ( keep them sort and specific to single function).

2014-03-01 22:06 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Parrott notifications@github.com:

How did you guys go with the videos?

I meant to write on this issue a long time ago but kept getting distracted. I swear I saw a long list of videos already created for Droidplanner 2 which would be a great starting point. But for the life of me I cannot find that page again!

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/DroidPlanner/droidplanner/issues/491#issuecomment-36442510 .

Arthur Benemann

arthurbenemann commented 10 years ago

We have a single video tutorial as an example, and the structure for adding more videos is in place. So I'm closing this issue.

But any other tutorial videos would be welcome.