iPhone Animated Loading Screen

Question

Is there a way to have an animated loading screen for my iPhone application as opposed to the Default.png that I currently am using?

Answer 1

In short - no. The purpose of the Default.png is to give the iPhone OS something to display to the user while it loads your application in. The best you can do is to speed up the initial load of your application (say defer your resource loading until after the program is running), then add your own animation while you actually load your resources 'behind the scenes'.

Answer 2

If you think of it as an animated loading screen then no, but having the first view of you application load all the data and do something while it is doing that then surely yes, but I am trying to do that and am failing at the moment