Splash screen while loading resources in android app

Question

I'd like to have a splash screen while loading resources (images and sounds). How do I know everything is loaded? Are all resources loaded at app startup?

Thanks

Answer 1

For accordingly implementing a splash screen in Android you want to:

1. Show a foreground screen with some progress indication for the user.
2. Execute a background thread for doing tasks that take some indefinitive time.
3. Both threads communicating between them, as you need the foreground to show the progress on the background.
4. Correctly kill the background thread when it finishes doing it's task. If you are planning to use AsyncTask in Android you have an issue there. (Link)

I've found this tutorial and I strongly suggest it:http://www.41post.com/4588/programming/android-coding-a-loading-screen-part-1

Part 1 accomplish this basic task, part 2 shows you how to correctly kill the AsyncTask. And part 3 puts a customized view in the foreground instead of the ProgressActivity.