Just missed this for a few days. Whens the next community meetup? Like @ThinhDinh, Im also based in Vietnam now, so the 10pm time is ok for me.
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It finished at about 11.40pm last Tuesday for me so that was quite fine.
Since I missed the last meetup, I’m not sure which of these topics were actually covered, so I’ll throw them back in the hat to see if they’re worth discussing:
- Zero-state/first time user tutorials that disappear after the user finishes a task
- Efficient data structure and reducing lag are top of my list.
Hi David, I’d like to summarize the points I remember for you.
1/Zero-state tutorials
Most of us would love that Glide will have this automatically in the future, but as of now some of us are building it ourselves. The best recommendation, I think, was to create a GIF of how things would work in your app, in the first tab. Then when the user clicks “I have understand” or something along the lines then it would disappear and be your normal home tab. You can easily achieve it with conditional visibility.
2/Reducing lag
The obvious thing is that you should build most of your data in the Glide Editor to reduce lag, and only use Sheets formula when you can’t find a way to make the same thing work in Glide (if you have a question post here we’ll try to help).
I don’t think there was much talk about efficient data structure, but from my own experience it’s a bit of a trial and error process. I try many things to see what I can make in Glide, what I must have in the Sheets, and as I stated above, as little stored in the Sheets as possible.
Hope it helps.
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Thank you!
All of your summarizations make sense. The implementation of the 1st time user experience could make it useful for new feature introductions, also. -Almost like a banner that you can trigger when you release a new feature and want to notify your users.
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