NativeScript App Tour

Note: This Plugin based on MaterialShowcase for IOS and TapTargetView for Android .

Installation

For NS8+:

tns plugin add nativescript-app-tour

For NS7+:

tns plugin add nativescript-app-tour@3.1.0

For older NS versions:

tns plugin add nativescript-app-tour@2.0.2

Usage

<Label id="feat1" text="Feature 1"></Label>
<Label id="feat2" text="Feature 2"></Label>
<Button text="start" tap="{{ startTour }}"></Button>

startTour(){

    const stops: TourStop[] = [
        {
            view: this.page.getViewById("feat1"),
            title: 'Feature 1',
            description: "Feature 1 Description",
            dismissable: true
        },
        {
            view: this.page.getViewById("feat2"),
            title: 'Feature 2',
            description: 'Feature 2 Description',
            outerCircleColor: 'orange',
            rippleColor: 'black'
        }
    ];

    const handlers: TourEvents = {
        finish() {
            console.log('Tour finished');
        },
        onStep(lastStopIndex) {
            console.log('User stepped', lastStopIndex);
        },
        onCancel(lastStopIndex) {
            console.log('User cancelled', lastStopIndex);
        }
    }

    this.tour = new AppTour(stops, handlers);
    this.tour.show();
}

see the demo project for more info.

Angular

also in angular you can get a refrence to the target view using @ViewChild decorator as next

<Label #feat1 text="Feature 1"></Label>
<Label #feat2 text="Feature 2"></Label>
<Button text="start" tap="{{ startTour }}"></Button>

@ViewChild('feat1') feat1: ElementRef;
@ViewChild('feat2') feat2: ElementRef;

startTour(){

    const stops: TourStop[] = [
        {
            view: this.feat1.nativeElement,
            title: 'Feature 1',
            description: "Feature 1 Description",
            dismissable: true
        },
        {
            view: this.feat2.nativeElement,
            title: 'Feature 2',
            description: 'Feature 2 Description',
            outerCircleColor: 'orange',
            rippleColor: 'black'
        }
    ];

    const handlers: TourEvents = {
        finish() {
            console.log('Tour finished');
        },
        onStep(lastStopIndex) {
            console.log('User stepped', lastStopIndex);
        },
        onCancel(lastStopIndex) {
            console.log('User cancelled', lastStopIndex);
        }
    }

    this.tour = new AppTour(stops, handlers);
    this.tour.show();
}

Vue

While for Angular the {N} view representations of a referenced ViewChild is in the .nativeElement property, the naming in {N}-vue is a little confusing, since the {N} view of a referenced child is in .nativeView. Meaning that:

• this.$ref.feat1 return the vue view of the child object
• this.$ref.feat1.nativeView returns the {N} view, which we need to pass as a stop.view
• (this.$ref.feat1.nativeView.nativeView returns the actual native view)

<Label ref="feat1" text="Feature 1"></Label>
<Label ref="feat2" text="Feature 2"></Label>
<Button text="start" @tap="startTour"></Button>

startTour(){

    const stops = [
        {
            view: this.$ref.feat1.nativeView,
            title: 'Feature 1',
            description: "Feature 1 Description",
            dismissable: true
        },
        {
            view: this.$ref.feat2.nativeView,
            title: 'Feature 2',
            description: 'Feature 2 Description',
            outerCircleColor: 'orange',
            rippleColor: 'black'
        }
    ];

    const handlers = {
        finish() {
            console.log('Tour finished');
        },
        onStep(lastStopIndex) {
            console.log('User stepped', lastStopIndex);
        },
        onCancel(lastStopIndex) {
            console.log('User cancelled', lastStopIndex);
        }
    }

    this.tour = new AppTour(stops, handlers);
    this.tour.show();
}

Special cases on Android (ActionBar, TabView)

There are some special {N} UI Elements that cannot be accessed by simply using the {N} view of these objects, because it will result in an error Cannot convert object to Landroid/view/View.

An example for that is <ActionBar> and <ActionItem>. To access these, one has to find the nativeView by searching the right child of a referenced objects parent:

const stops = [{
    view: page.getViewById("actionItem").parent.nativeView.getChildAt(0).getChildAt(0),
    title: "Action Item",
    description: "Some Description"
}]

This is similar for <TabView> and <TabViewItem> and might also be for other special items.

API

TourStop

Param	Description	type	default
view (required)	nativescript view ref	View	none
title	stop title	string	title
titleTextSize	title Text Size	number	25
titleTextColor	title Text Color	string	white
description	stop description	string	description
descriptionTextSize	description Text Size	number	20
descriptionTextColor	description Text Color	string	white
outerCircleOpacity	outer Circle background opacity	number	0.96
outerCircleColor	outer Circle background Color	string	black
innerCircleColor	circle around target view background Color	string	white
rippleColor (ios only)	target Circle ripple Color	string	white
innerCircleRadius	circle around target view raduis	number	50
dismissable	can the tour canceled by taping outside of target view	boolean	false

AppTour

Method	Description
constructor	AppTour(stops)
show()	start the tour
reset()	reset the tour to play it again

Tour Events

This plugin has 3 events, finish(): void => triggered once the tour finishes onStep(lastStepIndex): void => triggered once per step when target is tapped onCancel(lastStepIndex): void => triggered once when user dismisses the tour by tapping outside in a dismissable tour

Defaults

Note: If you use the same configs (colors, sizes,..etc) in all stops customize the defaults instead using AppTour defaults property which is basicly a TourStop 👍 .

Next

• add events.
• add more options to TourStop.

Contribute

if you want to help improve the plugin you can consider it yours and make as PRs as you want :)

Get Help

Please, use github issues strictly for reporting bugs or requesting features.

Contact

Twitter: hamdiwanis
Email: hamdiwanis@hotmail.com