What's an onboarding screen and where can we use it?
We should start this chapter by understanding what exactly an onboarding screen is. An onboarding screen is like a short introduction to your app before it's used. It's the first screen that welcomes the user.
The onboarding of your app should have a specific goal when it comes to welcoming users. You'll have to make sure that your onboarding will help users understand how they're supposed to be using the app, while also exciting them about the features they'll be able to use.
If you've made sure that the onboarding screen is going to be a great experience for your users, then you can expect more engagement from them in the first few days of them using the app. High engagement means happy users, which means your app is creating a really good user experience.
The onboarding screen should only appear to first-time users. We all know how annoying it would be to redo a tutorial in a game. Even...