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anbrown05 Aspiring developer Posts: 15 Reg: Jul 23, 2011 Out of line 2,800	confirm \| cancel 08/18/11 07:01 PM (14 years ago) Quiz - Emailing results, Back button Hi everyone, I'm a teacher, and I'm working on an app to help the students at my school (and everywhere, I guess) prepare for their end of course exams. The app I'm designing is in quiz format, and I'm wondering if I can configure the following functions: 1. Allow kids to email/FB/Tweet their quiz results 2. Include a back button that will navigate to the previous quiz question, rather than to the previous menu. Thanks so much for your help Title Comments Hi everyone, I'm a teacher, and I'm working on an app to help the students at my school (and everywhere, I guess) prepare for their end of course exams. The app I'm designing is in quiz format, and I'm wondering if I can configure the following functions: 1. Allow kids to email/FB/Tweet their quiz results 2. Include a back button that will navigate to the previous quiz question, rather than to the previous menu. Thanks so much for your help

David @ buzztouch buzztouch Evangelist Posts: 6866 Reg: Jan 01, 2010 Monterey, CA 78,840	08/18/11 11:20 PM (14 years ago) Not sure what version you're running...v1.4, v1.5, Android, etc. Assuming v1.5 (switch if you have not yet, waaaaay more flexible): Back button: Not easily, the back button will always go to the previous screens, Apple's super finicky about what the top-left button does. And, navigating to the next / previous questions is harder than it sounds. An Image Gallery with 'study cards' works well for this type of back-n-forth navigation. Sharing results: There isn't a share-results function built in (like you realize) but you could wire-this-up. The idea is this: The showFinishScreen option allows you to setup a screen to show when the quiz ends. You could create a menu for this screen. The menu could have share options like email, facebook, twitter, etc. When the quiz ended it would show the menu. This would allow sharing and you could pre-fill a canned message but it doesn't solve the problem of getting the results somehow magically entered in the email, facebook or twitter post. To get the results entered you'll need to write some code. The idea is that you will 'remember' the quiz values to then insert in the outbound sharing message. Depending on your skill, this could be super-easy or very very difficult. Comments Not sure what version you're running...v1.4, v1.5, Android, etc. Assuming v1.5 (switch if you have not yet, waaaaay more flexible): Back button: Not easily, the back button will always go to the previous screens, Apple's super finicky about what the top-left button does. And, navigating to the next / previous questions is harder than it sounds. An Image Gallery with 'study cards' works well for this type of back-n-forth navigation. Sharing results: There isn't a share-results function built in (like you realize) but you could wire-this-up. The idea is this: The showFinishScreen option allows you to setup a screen to show when the quiz ends. You could create a menu for this screen. The menu could have share options like email, facebook, twitter, etc. When the quiz ended it would show the menu. This would allow sharing and you could pre-fill a canned message but it doesn't solve the problem of getting the results somehow magically entered in the email, facebook or twitter post. To get the results entered you'll need to write some code. The idea is that you will 'remember' the quiz values to then insert in the outbound sharing message. Depending on your skill, this could be super-easy or very very difficult.

anbrown05 Aspiring developer Posts: 15 Reg: Jul 23, 2011 Out of line 2,800	08/19/11 04:01 PM (14 years ago) Hey, David. You're right, I'm using v1.5. Thanks for your help. I would reeeeally like to at least include an e-mail results option. I'm not an expert in code, but I am willing to learn for this project. Do you know of any resources that would point me in the right direction? Thanks again, Angela Comments Hey, David. You're right, I'm using v1.5. Thanks for your help. I would reeeeally like to at least include an e-mail results option. I'm not an expert in code, but I am willing to learn for this project. Do you know of any resources that would point me in the right direction? Thanks again, Angela

Paul Rogers Android Fan Posts: 2524 Reg: May 30, 2011 UK 35,740	08/19/11 05:51 PM (14 years ago) stackoverflow.com is one of the best places for help, advice and code samples. Comments stackoverflow.com is one of the best places for help, advice and code samples.

anbrown05 Aspiring developer Posts: 15 Reg: Jul 23, 2011 Out of line 2,800	08/19/11 05:54 PM (14 years ago) Perfect! Thanks so much! Comments Perfect! Thanks so much!

RTC360 Aspiring developer Posts: 11 Reg: Jul 31, 2011 Lexington, Kent... 1,310	08/23/11 12:29 PM (14 years ago) Hi anbrown, Were you able to find any resources on this? If so, would you mind sharing? Thanks Comments Hi anbrown, Were you able to find any resources on this? If so, would you mind sharing? Thanks

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